What does it mean that a tumor sample has a mutation or rearrangement? Is the presence of a mutation an "all-or-none" phenomenon or are there additional levels once an alteration is identified?

Name: What does it mean that a tumor sample has a mutation or rearrangement? Is the presence of a mutation an "all-or-none" phenomenon or are there additional levels once an alteration is identified?
Uploaded: 2016-07-22T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Exactly what does it mean that a tumor sample has a mutation or rearrangement? Exactly what is being measured? Is the presence of a mutation an “all-or–none” phenomenon or are there additional quantitative levels of characterization available once a genomic alteration is identified?

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Yilong Wu, MD

Vice President
Guangdong General Hospital
Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences
Director, Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute
Guangzhou, China

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