Molecular characterisation of kidney cancer and opportunities for targeted therapies - European Medical Journal

Molecular characterisation of kidney cancer and opportunities for targeted therapies

Oncology
At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Sumanta K. Pal, MD, of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, discusses the recent progress in understanding clinically relevant genomic alterations in kidney cancer. Genomic profiling of collecting duct carcinomas, a rare kidney cancer subtype, revealed a high frequency of NF2 genomic alterations, which may represent opportunities for the application of targeted therapies.

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