Items Tagged ‘Matthew Goetz’
December 23, 2014
Don’t Change Breast Cancer Guidelines on Flawed Research
By Center for Individualized Medicine 
Clinical recommendations discouraging the use of CYP2D6 gene testing to guide tamoxifen therapy in breast cancer patients are based on studies with flawed methodology and should be reconsidered, according to the results of a Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. For years, controversy has surrounded the CYP2D6 […]
Tags: biomarker, biomarkers, cancer, center for individualized medicine, CYP2D6, DNA, DNA Sequencing, dna test, DNA Testing, gene sequencing, genome science, Genome Sequencing
October 30, 2014
The Future of Individualized Medicine at Mayo Clinic
By Center for Individualized Medicine
Individualizing Medicine 2014: From Promise to Practice, was held in October in Rochester, focusing on how to translate the promise of genomic medicine into practice. Expert speakers, focused breakout sessions, real-life case studies and a poster session provided attendees with many opportunities to discover and discuss emerging topics in applied genomics. Speakers covered a […]
Tags: Biobank, Bioethics, biomarker, biomarkers, center for individualized medicine, DNA, DNA Sequencing, dna test, DNA Testing, gene sequencing, genetic, Genetics
October 7, 2014
Individualizing Medicine 2014: Day Two Recap
By Sam Smith
Day two of the Individualizing Medicine 2014 Conference dispelled any notion of a conference on genomics being a gathering of humorless, stuffy scientists talking about the minutiae of genetic alphabet soup. Bob Dylan and Fifty Shades of Grey, Clint Eastwood and Dr. Seuss were intermixed in with informative talks that centered on the power of […]
Tags: 23andMe, beauty project, ceci connolly, center for individualized medicine, Conference, dan roden, genomics, Gianrico Farrugia, im2014, individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Conference, individualizing medicine 2014
July 30, 2013
By Center for Individualized Medicine
The Breast Cancer Genome-Guided Therapy (BEAUTY) study is designed to help researchers better understand why standard chemotherapy eradicates breast cancer in some women but fails in others. The long-term goal is to enable individualized treatment for each woman with breast cancer by using the genetic information found in blood samples and tumor biopsies to […]
Tags: BEAUTY, beauty project, breast cancer, cancer, exome, genome, genomics, Judy Boughey, Matthew Goetz, sequencing, the beauty project, whole exome