Rubén Olivera-Salguero, Elia Seguí, Juan Miguel Cejalvo, Mafalda Oliveira, Pablo Tolosa, Maria Vidal, Marcos Malumbres, Joaquín Gavilá, Cristina Saura, Sonia Pernas, Rafael López, Mireia Margelí, Judith Balmaña, Montserrat Muñoz, Isabel Blancas, Valentina Boni, Eva Ciruelos, Elena Galve, Antonia Perelló, Rodrigo Sánchez-Bayona, Susana de la Cruz, Miguel de la Hoya, Patricia Galván, Esther Sanfeliu, Blanca Gonzalez-Farre, Valeria Sirenko, Aura Blanch-Torras, Jordi Canes, Helena Masanas, Rosa Olmos, Margarita Forns, Aleix Prat, Ana Casas, Tomás Pascual
BACKGROUND: Metastatic breast cancer (mBC) causes nearly all BC-related deaths. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies allow for the application of personalized medicine using targeted therapies that could improve patients' outcomes. However, NGS is not routinely used in the clinical practice and its cost induces access-inequity among patients. We hypothesized that promoting active patient participation in the management of their disease offering access to NGS testing and to the subsequent medical interpretation and recommendations provided by a multidisciplinary molecular advisory board (MAB) could contribute to progressively overcome this challenge...
2023: Frontiers in Oncology