An international clinical trial, published in Nature Medicine, revealed that combining RNA and DNA profiling gives a far more precise indication of the active biological elements within a tumor, enabling clinicians to more accurately determine which targeted therapies could improve survival among patients with advanced cancer. This marks the first clinical trial in cancer to add gene expression on top of DNA aberration. The Segal Cancer Centre at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) was the only Canadian site in this pioneering effort undertaken by the Worldwide Innovative Networking in Personalized Cancer Medicine (WIN Consortium), of which the Segal Cancer Centre is a founding member.
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