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Genomic and Precision Medicine

Oncology

  • 3rd Edition - April 9, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Huntington F Willard, John Strickler, Matthew Stuart McKinney
  • Language: English

Genomic and Precision Medicine: Oncology, Third Edition focuses on the applications of genome discovery as research points to personalized cancer therapies. Each chapter is organi… Read more

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Description

Genomic and Precision Medicine: Oncology, Third Edition focuses on the applications of genome discovery as research points to personalized cancer therapies. Each chapter is organized to cover the application of genomics and personalized medicine tools and technologies to a) Risk Assessment and Susceptibility, b) Diagnosis and Prognosis, c) Pharmacogenomics and Precision Therapeutics, and d) Emerging and Future Opportunities in the field.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive volume written and edited by oncology genomic specialists for oncology health providers
  • Includes succinct commentary and key learning points that will assist providers with their local needs for implementation of genomic and personalized medicine into practice
  • Presents an up-to-date overview on major opportunities for genomic and personalized medicine in practice
  • Covers case studies that highlight the practical use of genomics in the management of patients

Readership

Medical students, life sciences and engineering graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and residents and fellows working with any aspect of genomic research in the life sciences and/or medicine; educators, and translational scientists

Table of contents

1. Overview: The Cancer Genome Landscape

2. Application of Human Genome Information to Clinical Practice

3. Translating genome information into clinical practice and human health

4. Big Data and Translational Bioinformatics Genomic and Personalized Medicine

5. Health Risk Assessment and Family History

6. Clinical Decision Support

7. Overview of Policy, Ethical and Social Considerations

8. Lymphomas

9. Leukemias

10. Genomics of Lung Cancer

11. Breast Cancer

12. Ovarian Cancer

13. Colorectal Cancer

14. Prostate Cancer

15. Head and Neck Cancer

16. Brain Tumors and Gliomas

17. Melanoma

18. Metastatic Cancer

19. Bioinformatics and Personalized Cancer Care

20. Diagnostic-Therapeutic Combinations

21. Treatment Decisions and Cancer Mutations

22. Case Studies

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 14, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Geoffrey S. Ginsburg

Dr. Ginsburg is the founding Director of the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He is also Professor of Medicine and of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke Pratt School of Engineering, and Co-Director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute.
Affiliations and expertise
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

HW

Huntington F Willard

Huntington Willard is on the faculty of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. Prior to this appointment, Willard was the President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He was previously on the faculty at Duke University, where he was founding director of the university-wide Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy from 2003 to 2014, the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, and the Arts & Sciences Professor of Biology & Genome Sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Medical, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA

JS

John Strickler

John Strickler is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

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Matthew Stuart McKinney

Matthew Stuart McKinney is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

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