Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

On March 29, 2016, we reported the story of a 55-year-old man diagnosed 13 years earlier with prostate cancer who had failed many prior courses of therapy. When our functional profile performed on a surgical biopsy revealed an unexpected degree of activity for platinum-based chemotherapy, I decided to pursue the possibility that this patient’s tumor might carry a mutation in the BRCA genes. I referred him to a genetic counselor who conducted a genomic screen to rule out famil