The Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer that 24 of 920 patients (3 percent) with advanced-stage lung cancer had mutations in the gene HER2. Seventy-one percent of these patients were never-smokers, with a median age of 62. The gene HER2 …
Tag Archives: university of colorado cancer center
July, 2017
March, 2016
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30 March
New Tool Mines Whole-Exome Sequencing Data to Match Cancer with Best Drug
A University of Colorado Cancer study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) describes a new tool that interprets the raw data of whole exome tumor sequencing and then matches the cancer’s unique genetics to FDA-approved targeted treatments. “Whole exome sequencing is becoming more available …
February, 2015
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25 February
Four New Centers Join World’s Largest Precision Cancer Research Network
The Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), founded by Moffitt Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCC-James), announced that it has expanded with the addition of four nationally recognized cancer centers. ORIEN, a research …