Decision-support application for cancer patients gets further funding
Sarah Bauerle Bass will use a new collaborative grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to expand a software tool she developed with Michael Hall, an oncologist and clinical cancer geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, to help cancer patients make informed decisions about their care. Bass and Hall created Gene Pilot, a user-friendly online application that explains the potentially useful procedure of tumor genetic profiling (TGP) and helps patients articulate their questions and concerns about it.
The use of multi-gene TGP to examine a patient’s tumor for targetable m...