The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations
Recent public policy, governmental regulatory and economic trends have motivated the establishment and deepening of community health and academic medical center alliances. Accordingly, community oncology practices now deliver a significant portion of their oncology care in association with academic...
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| author | Marilena Melas Shanmuga Subbiah Siamak Saadat Swapnil Rajurkar Kevin J. McDonnell |
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| description | Recent public policy, governmental regulatory and economic trends have motivated the establishment and deepening of community health and academic medical center alliances. Accordingly, community oncology practices now deliver a significant portion of their oncology care in association with academic cancer centers. In the age of precision medicine, this alliance has acquired critical importance; novel advances in nucleic acid sequencing, the generation and analysis of immense data sets, the changing clinical landscape of hereditary cancer predisposition and ongoing discovery of novel, targeted therapies challenge community-based oncologists to deliver molecularly-informed health care. The active engagement of community oncology practices with academic partners helps with meeting these challenges; community/academic alliances result in improved cancer patient care and provider efficacy. Here, we review the community oncology and academic medical center alliance. We examine how practitioners may leverage academic center precision medicine-based cancer genetics and genomics programs to advance their patients’ needs. We highlight a number of project initiatives at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center that seek to optimize community oncology and academic cancer center precision medicine interactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0145a4d18e04490a8e7070bc25b21952023-11-20T05:59:01ZengMDPI AGJournal of Clinical Medicine2077-03832020-07-0197212510.3390/jcm9072125The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics ConsiderationsMarilena Melas0Shanmuga Subbiah1Siamak Saadat2Swapnil Rajurkar3Kevin J. McDonnell4The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USADepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Glendora, CA 91741, USADepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Colton, CA 92324, USADepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Upland, CA 91786, USADepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, USARecent public policy, governmental regulatory and economic trends have motivated the establishment and deepening of community health and academic medical center alliances. Accordingly, community oncology practices now deliver a significant portion of their oncology care in association with academic cancer centers. In the age of precision medicine, this alliance has acquired critical importance; novel advances in nucleic acid sequencing, the generation and analysis of immense data sets, the changing clinical landscape of hereditary cancer predisposition and ongoing discovery of novel, targeted therapies challenge community-based oncologists to deliver molecularly-informed health care. The active engagement of community oncology practices with academic partners helps with meeting these challenges; community/academic alliances result in improved cancer patient care and provider efficacy. Here, we review the community oncology and academic medical center alliance. We examine how practitioners may leverage academic center precision medicine-based cancer genetics and genomics programs to advance their patients’ needs. We highlight a number of project initiatives at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center that seek to optimize community oncology and academic cancer center precision medicine interactions.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/7/2125community oncologyacademic cancer centerprecision medicinecancer geneticscancer genomics |
| spellingShingle | Marilena Melas Shanmuga Subbiah Siamak Saadat Swapnil Rajurkar Kevin J. McDonnell The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations Journal of Clinical Medicine community oncology academic cancer center precision medicine cancer genetics cancer genomics |
| title | The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations |
| title_full | The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations |
| title_fullStr | The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations |
| title_short | The Community Oncology and Academic Medical Center Alliance in the Age of Precision Medicine: Cancer Genetics and Genomics Considerations |
| title_sort | community oncology and academic medical center alliance in the age of precision medicine cancer genetics and genomics considerations |
| topic | community oncology academic cancer center precision medicine cancer genetics cancer genomics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/7/2125 |
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