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Memorial Sloan Kettering offering free genomic testing for rare cancers

LiliTM
LiliTM CSN Member Posts: 32
in Rare and Other Cancers #1

From our experience (stage 4 gallbladder cancer, but it applies to others also), it is so important to ask to get your tumor tissue genomically tested as soon as possible, to see if you are a candidate for immunotherapy or targeted therapy.

Please ask for them to test for immunotherapy indicators like PD-1/PD-L1 as well (including microsatellite instability, tumor mutation burden, DNA mismatch repair, etc.) 

In case this helps someone who is concerned about costs of genomic testing with Foundation One: 

https://www.mskcc.org/research-programs/molecular-oncology/a

All my warmest wishes

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