title: Molecular staging and pharmacogenomics. Clinical implications: from lab to patients and back.
abstract: The complexities of human cancer have frustrated attempts to understand its genetic underpinnings and explain the unpredictable behavior of individual tumors. Advances in robotics and computer science, as well as the sequence data from the human genome project are now allowing us to begin to glean useful information from the simultaneous analysis of thousands of data elements from hundreds of tumors. Through the sophisticated analysis of patterns in these complex data sets, we are seeing clues that we may be able to predict the behavior of individual tumors as well as to define novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets. In this review, we will discuss the application of these high-throughput technologies for the study of human lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80217, USA. wilbur.franklin@uchsc.edu
authors.forename: Wilbur A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: David P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Carbone
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010597:Pharmacogenetics; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor