Molecular Profiling Practices in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

This week, "Oncology Peer Review On-The-Go" discussed an article from the May issue of the journal ONCOLOGY titled “Molecular Profiling Practices in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Academic vs Community Physicians.” CancerNetwork spoke with Christine Chung, DO, from the HCA Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado, about the molecular profiling patterns she and her colleagues observed in this retrospective review. The authors found that both academic and community physicians ordered profiling about 50% of the time, which was contrary to previous reports that suggest academic centers perform molecular profiling more often.

The perspective for this article comes from Roman Groisberg, MD, a medical oncologist and director of the Sarcoma Medical Oncology Program at the Rutgers Cancer Institute. Groisberg discussed the role of profiling in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, his thoughts on the retrospective review, and the future of profiling for this cohort of patients.

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