Genitourinary Cancers: Molecular Determinants for Personalized Therapies. Issue 3 (July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mazzucchelli, Roberta; Gasparrini, Silvia; Galosi, Andrea B.; Massari, Francesco; Raspollini, Maria Rosaria; Scarpelli, Marina; Lopez-Beltran, Antonio; Cheng, Liang; Montironi, Rodolfo
• Is Part Of: Urologia journal. Volume 83:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 109
• Publication Date: 2016-07
• Subjects: Bladder cancer -- Hormonal agents -- Immunotherapy -- Kidney cancer -- Molecular targeted drugs -- Prostate cancer; Urology -- Periodicals; 616.6005
• DOI: 10.5301/uro.5000187
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0391-5603

Abstract

Recent insights and emerging strategies for individualized therapeutic approaches in patients with genitourinary (GU) cancers are based on patient's genomic and cancer's molecular profiles. This depends on the significant advances made in molecular biology technologies, such as next-generation sequencing and whole-exome sequencing. The rise of such novel techniques has grayly increased our knowledge on cancer cell biology and development, thus allowing to identify complex abnormalities at the genomic level. These findings have paved the way toward what is called precision medicine, thus providing healthcare from an individual perspective in patients with GU tumors.