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How do we make sense of an NGS-based molecular profile when there appear to be a number of potentially actionable genomic alterations? How might a “molecular tumor board” be helpful?

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Description: How do we make sense of an NGS-based molecular profile when there appear to be a number of potentially actionable genomic alterations? How might a “molecular tumor board” be helpful?

Published: September 26, 2017

How do we make sense of an NGS-based molecular profile when there appear to be a number of potentially actionable genomic alterations? How might a “molecular tumor board” be helpful?

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Prof. Matthew Krebs, MD, PhD

Clinical Senior Lecturer
Experimental Cancer Medicine
Honorary Consultant
Medical Oncology
The University of Manchester
Greater Manchester, UK

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