Update on Precision Medicine: Identifying Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles

THIS EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

To be presented by: Vincent Miller, MD; Chief Medical Officer, Foundation Medicine.

Educational Objectives:

1. Describe, compare and contrast the different molecular diagnostic methods of single gene marker, hot spot next-generation sequencing panels and comprehensive genomic profiling utilized in cancer patients

2. Describe 4 major classes of DNA alterations detected in human cancer

3. Discuss various challenges in using traditional technologies to  to characterize cancer in guiding treatment and how  comprehensive genomic profiling can address them