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Clinical Diagnostics
Clinical Diagnostics: The identification of a disease in regards to a patient's complaints based merely on signs, symptoms, and medical history of the patient rather than on laboratory examination or medical imaging.
OCT 10, 2019 | 12:00 PM
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker that correlates with response to immunotherapeutic agents, such as checkpoint inhibitors. Recent studies indicate that a high mutation l...
OCT 10, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common bone tumor in pediatric and adolescent/young adult patients. Over the past three decades, significant improvements in the survival rates or therapeutic ap...
OCT 10, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Accumulation of structural variations (SVs) across the genome is a known trigger factor for oncogenesis. Structural mutations have been clearly implicated in a number of cancers, most notably...
OCT 10, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Blockade of CTLA-4 and PD-1, members of the B7/CD28 family, have proven to be the most successful cancer immunotherapies to date. While the current therapeutic focus remains on B7/CD28 family...
OCT 10, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Copy-number alterations and chromosomal translocations are widespread in cancer and frequently causing oncogenic mutations that drive tumorigenesis and therapy resistance. Despite their preva...
OCT 09, 2019 | 12:00 PM
The introduction of robot-assisted surgical technology into urological practice, has introduced new horizons for reducing the morbidity and enhancing the efficacy of surgery. Open radical cys...
OCT 09, 2019 | 10:30 AM
A subset of women with ovarian cancer will present with an apparently isolated adnexal mass. Many of these women will have early stage ovarian cancer with a relatively good prognosis. Unfortu...
