How DNA Sequencing Technologies Are Used in Cancer Care, Now and in the Future

Patricia Friend, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCNS®, AGN-BC
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Genomic testing identifies germline or inherited DNA changes that increase a person’s cancer risk, and it also can identify or profile the somatic or acquired changes in a tumor that guide selection of appropriate targeted therapies. The latter type of genomic testing is an analysis of DNA sequence information.

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