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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2020

A systems approach to clinical oncology uses deep phenotyping to deliver personalized care.

James T Yurkovich, Qiang Tian, Nathan D Price, Leroy Hood

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Towards a Compositional Framework for Describing Human Phenotypes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  12. Longitudinal big biological data in the AI era.Molecular systems biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

James T Yurkovich *Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-509X
Qiang Tian *Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nathan D PriceInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA. nathan.price@isbscience.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4157-0267
Leroy HoodInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA. lee.hood@isbscience.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7158-3678

Funding

Hardwiring Mechanism into Predicting Cancer Phenotypes by Computational LearningR01CA200859 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI MARCHIONNI, LUIGI · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA200859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer encompasses a complex, heterogeneous and dynamic group of diseases that arise from perturbations to multiple biological networks within the body. A systems biology-based approach would help to decipher this complexity, to deeply characterize the pathophysiology of the disease and to stratify cancers into appropriate molecular subtypes to facilitate the development of personalized therapies. Technological advances made over the past decade have enabled multiscale, longitudinal measurements ('snapshots') of human biology, from single-cell analyses to whole-body monitoring. In this Perspective, we discuss some of these technologies and how they have (and will) contributed to our understanding of cancer biology as well as to the development of early diagnostics and personalized therapies. We argue that the integration of molecular profiling of cancerous tissues with deep, longitudinal profiling of the physiological state of an individual ('deep phenotyping') is key to understanding the prevention, initiation, progression and response to treatment of cancers. Systems biology-based approaches can provide an unprecedented trove of data for early detection of disease transitions, prediction of therapeutic responses and clinical outcomes, and for the design of personalized treatments.

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Precision MedicineSystems BiologyHumansMedical OncologyNeoplasmsSingle-Cell AnalysisSystems Analysis

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