Study shows feasibility of incorporating hereditary cancer risk assessments into community urology practices

“NSD2 is a cancer specific collaborator of the androgen receptor that essentially rewires its activity to support prostate cancer development," says Abhijit Parolia, PhD,

Patients who had mutations in the ERCC2, ATM, or RB1 genes were more than 5 times more likely to achieve a pathologic complete response following cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

"The scale of that linkage and the manner with which we were able to do it is really exciting and opens the door for a lot of future discovery," says Michael S. Leapman, MD, MHS.

"We wanted to look at the importance of genetic testing in patients with GU cancer and the impact that it has on their treatment decision-making, and the pathways that we put them on," says Mouneeb Choudry, MD.

here was a higher concordance of somatic alterations between tissue and ctDNA testing in patients with metastases vs those without.

“By understanding the mirSNP genetic markers that predispose patients to adverse side effects from cancer therapy we can tailor these therapies to minimize harm and maximize efficacy," says Joanne B. Weidhaas, MD, PhD, MS.