Gynecological NGS panels offer cost-effective cancer testing: Sounak Gupta, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.

Sounak Gupta, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' gynecological NGS panels provide focused assessments of gynecological cancers. The cost-effective tests fill the gap between single gene assays and large cancer panels, to inform prognosis and treatment.
 
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 Could you provide our listeners with a little bit about yourself and your background, please?

 

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 Could you give a brief overview of the new assays?

 

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 Can you talk a little about both the ovarian and gynecologic panel that will be in the new set of tests?

 

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 What patients will be impacted by this testing?

 

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 Can you speak to some of the individual genes in the gynecological area, such as POLE?

 

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 Is there anything else you would like to add?

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