Current status of cancer genomics and imaging phenotypes: what radiologists need to know
Mendes Serrão, Eva Klug, Maximiliano Moloney, Brian M Jhaveri, Aaditeya Lo Gullo, Roberto Pinker, Katja Luker, Gary Haider, Massom A Shinagare, Atul B Liu, Xiaoyang
Mendes Serrão, Eva
Klug, Maximiliano
Moloney, Brian M
Jhaveri, Aaditeya
Lo Gullo, Roberto
Pinker, Katja
Luker, Gary
Haider, Massom A
Shinagare, Atul B
Liu, Xiaoyang
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Ongoing discoveries in cancer genomics and epigenomics have revolutionized clinical oncology and precision health care. This knowledge provides unprecedented insights into tumor biology and heterogeneity within a single tumor, among primary and metastatic lesions, and among patients with the same histologic type of cancer. Large-scale genomic sequencing studies also sparked the development of new tumor classifications, biomarkers, and targeted therapies. Because of the central role of imaging in cancer diagnosis and therapy, radiologists need to be familiar with the basic concepts of genomics, which are now becoming the new norm in oncologic clinical practice. By incorporating these concepts into clinical practice, radiologists can make their imaging interpretations more meaningful and specific, facilitate multidisciplinary clinical dialogue and interventions, and provide better patient-centric care. This review article highlights basic concepts of genomics and epigenomics, reviews the most common genetic alterations in cancer, and discusses the implications of these concepts on imaging by organ system in a case-based manner. This information will help stimulate new innovations in imaging research, accelerate the development and validation of new imaging biomarkers, and motivate efforts to bring new molecular and functional imaging methods to clinical radiology. Keywords: Oncology, Cancer Genomics, Epignomics, Radiogenomics, Imaging Markers Supplemental material is available for this article. © RSNA, 2023.
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Mendes Serrão E, Klug M, Moloney BM, Jhaveri A, Lo Gullo R, Pinker K, et al. Current Status of Cancer Genomics and Imaging Phenotypes: What Radiologists Need to Know. Radiology Imaging cancer. 2023 Nov;5(6):e220153. PubMed PMID: 37921555. Epub 2023/11/03. eng.