What does it mean that a tumor sample has a mutation or rearrangement? Is the presence of a mutation an

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?

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

Yilong Wu, MD

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