Current best practices and rationalistic perspectives in causation-based prevention, early detection and multidisciplinary treatment of breast and gastric cancer

Gastric & Breast Cancer e-journal
DOI: 10.2122/gbc.2017.0266

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Overcoming challenges of primary liver cancers by integrating Next-Generation Sequencing.

Prof. Theodore Liakakos, MD, PhD

Affiliation: Theodore Liakakos, MD, Professor of Surgery, Head of 1st Department of Surgery, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece.

E-mail: theodlia@otenet.gr

Abstract
Introduction: The prognosis of primary liver cancer (PLC) remains poor and is explained by the slow progress in understanding the molecular pathways driving tumorigenesis, therapeutic resistance and relapse. For early PLCs, complete surgical resection is the only effective treatment, with sorafenib and, more recently, regorafenib prolonging overall survival by a few months.
Areas covered: Application of next-generation sequencing (NGS), including targeted NGS (tNGS), whole-exome sequencing (WES), whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and RNA sequencing (RNAseq), on clinical samples from patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) could aid in comprehending tumorigenesis, genetic and genomic heterogeneity, as well as developing molecular classifications for specialized targeted therapy.
Expert commentary: Despite the many overenthusiastic original and opinion reports, we have critically reviewed available NGS studies, with focus on the challenges to achieve clinical implications. Based on the recommendations for valid identification of clinically crucial genetic alterations (GAs) by NGS, we propose NGS integration into appropriately designed clinical trials. Furthermore, valid detection of genomic heterogeneity enables the conduction of clinical trials investigating the efficacy both of GAs as prognostic and predictive tools,Panerai Replica Watches as well as the discovery of novel oncotargets, on the basis of an early drug development strategy.

(Citation: Gastric & Breast Cancer 2017; 12(2): 107-121)

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