Seyram A Doe-Tetteh, Sabrina Y Camp, Dalicia Reales, Jett Crowdis, Anne Marie Noronha, Bernadette Wolff, Tina Alano, Jesse Galle, S Duygu Selcuklu, Agnes Viale, Nicholas D Socci, Ying L Liu, William P Tew, Carol Aghajanian, Marc Ladanyi, Meng Xiao He, Saud H AlDubayan, Roei David Mazor, Ofer Shpilberg, Oshrat Hershkovitz-Rokah, Jose A Riancho, Jose L Hernandez, M Carmen Gonzalez-Vela, Justin J Buthorn, Manda Wilson, Amy E Webber, Mariko Yabe, Kseniya Petrova-Drus, Marc Rosenblum, Benjamin H Durham, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Michael F Berger, Mark T A Donoghue, Andrew L Kung, Julia Glade Bender, Neerav N Shukla, Samuel A Funt, Ahmet Dogan, Robert A Soslow, Hikmat Al-Ahmadie, Darren R Feldman, Eliezer M Van Allen, Eli L Diamond, David B Solit
PURPOSE: To overcome barriers to genomic testing for patients with rare cancers, we initiated a program to offer free clinical tumor genomic testing worldwide to patients with select rare cancer subtypes. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Patients were recruited through social media outreach and engagement with disease-specific advocacy groups, with a focus on patients with histiocytosis, germ cell tumors (GCT), and pediatric cancers. Tumors were analyzed using the MSK-IMPACT next-generation sequencing assay with the return of results to patients and their local physicians...
July 5, 2023: Clinical Cancer Research