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Catalyzing the field of precision oncology, one basket at a time

A bedside strategy to overcome the limitations of testing in preclinical models and to determine the role of gene mutations and their targetability directly in patients is presented.

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Figure 1: Key characteristics of the extended basket study.

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Pao, W., Fodor, I. Catalyzing the field of precision oncology, one basket at a time. Nat Med 24, 387–388 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4530

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