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ReviewHereditary cancer in clinical practice2025

Tumour mutational burden using a targeted panel approach for comprehensive tumour profiling focusing on colorectal cancer.

Rodney J Scott, Andrew Ziolkowski, David Mossman, Michael Hipwell

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Review in Hereditary cancer in clinical practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rodney J ScottDivision of Molecular Medicine, NSW Health Pathology, New Lambton, NSW, 2305, Australia. rodney.scott@newcastle.edu.au.
Andrew ZiolkowskiDivision of Molecular Medicine, NSW Health Pathology, New Lambton, NSW, 2305, Australia.
David MossmanDivision of Molecular Medicine, NSW Health Pathology, New Lambton, NSW, 2305, Australia.
Michael HipwellDivision of Molecular Medicine, NSW Health Pathology, New Lambton, NSW, 2305, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is an increasing recognition that comprehensive tumour profiling (CTP) represents an important adjunct to the diagnosis of malignancy providing not only an assessment of how many mutations there are in any given tumour which reflects the probability of immune checkpoint inhibitor success, but also which mutations are associated with targeted therapies, a signature that reflects environmental insult and potentially the identification of cancers of unknown origin.This short review describes an approach to assaying tumour mutational burden (TMB), what the difficulties are in the assessment of the TMB and what it can be applied to in regards to improving patient outcomes. A final section of the review delves into some examples of colorectal cancer studies that identify findings that suggest there remains much to learn about tumour development.

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ApplicationsColorectal cancerEpigenetic change and large deletionsTumour Mutational Burden

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PMID40022227
PMCPMC11869696

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