Precision Medicine: Cancer and Genomics - May 6, 2015

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Precision Medicine: Cancer and Genomics - May 6, 2015

A decision support framework for genomically informed investigational cancer therapy.
Meric-Bernstam F et al. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 2015 Jul (7)

Divide and conquer: The molecular diagnosis of cancer,by Louis M. Staudt, National Cancer Insitute, Apr 13

Health: Make precision medicine work for cancer care
To get targeted treatments to more cancer patients pair genomic data with clinical data, and make the information widely accessible, Mark A. Rubin. Nature News, Apr 15

Using somatic mutations to guide treatment decisions
Horlings H et al. JAMA Oncology, March 12, 2015

The landscape of precision cancer medicine clinical trials in the United States
Roper N et al. Cancer Treatment Reviews 2015

What is “precision medicine? Information from the National Cancer Institute

Impact of cancer genomics on precision medicine for the treatment of cancer, from the Cancer Genome Atlas, NCI

US precision-medicine proposal sparks questions, by Sara Reardon, Nature News, Jan 22

Obama's 'precision medicine' means gene mapping, NBC News, Jan 21

What is President Obama's 'precision medicine' plan, and how might it help you? By Lenny Bernstein, Jan 21

Recent reviews

Companion diagnostics: the key to personalized medicine.
Jørgensen JT. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2015 Feb;15(2):153-6

Promoting precision cancer medicine through a community-driven knowledgebase.
Geifman N, et al. J Pers Med. 2014 Dec 15;4(4):475-88.

Toward a prostate cancer precision medicine.
Rubin MA. Urol Oncol. 2014 Nov 20.

Prioritizing targets for precision cancer medicine.
Andre F, et al. Ann Oncol. 2014 Dec;25(12):2295-303

Toward precision medicine with next-generation EGFR inhibitors in non-small-cell lung cancer.
Yap TA, Popat S. Pharmgenomics Pers Med. 2014 Sep 19;7:285-95.

Genomically driven precision medicine to improve outcomes in anaplastic thyroid cancer.
Pinto N, et al.  J Oncol. 2014;936285

Translating genomics for precision cancer medicine.
Roychowdhury S, Chinnaiyan AM. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2014;15:395-415

Cancer Precision Medicine: Where Are We? - September 18, 2014

NIH announces the launch of 3 integrated precision medicine trials; ALCHEMIST is for patients with certain types of early-stage lung cancer, August 2014 

National Cancer Institute's Precision Medicine Initiatives for the New National Clinical Trials Network.Jeffrey Abrams et al. ASCO Annual Meeting 2014 

Personalized medicine: Special treatment.
Michael Eisenstein. Nature, September 11, 2014

Why the controversy? Start sequencing tumor genes at diagnosis. Tumor sequencing at the time of diagnosis can give significant insight for successful cancer treatment, by Shelly Gunn, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Sep 10  

National Cancer Institute information: Precision medicine and targeted therapy

Genomics and precision oncology: What's a targeted therapy for cancer? An updated list of approved drugs from the National Cancer Institute (2014)

Therapy: This time it's personal
Gravitz L Nature 509, S52-S54 2014 May 29

Multi-marker solid tumor panels using next-generation sequencing to direct molecularly targeted therapies
Michael Marrone, et al. PLoS Currents Evidence on Genomic Tests 2014 May 27

Impact of cancer genomics on precision medicine for the treatment of cancer, from the National Cancer Institute

Cancer genomics and precision medicine in the 21st century  [PDF 2.20 MB], power point presentation from the National Human Genome Research Institute