Precision Cancer Diagnostics: Tracking Genomic Evolution in Clinical Trials

Francisco Beca; Andrew H. Beck

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002177

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Precision Cancer Diagnostics: Tracking Genomic Evolution in Clinical Trials

Francisco Beca ,

* E-mail: fbeca@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-012X

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Andrew H. Beck

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Precision Cancer Diagnostics: Tracking Genomic Evolution in Clinical Trials

Francisco Beca,
Andrew H. Beck

Published: December 6, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002177

About the Authors

Francisco Beca

* E-mail: fbeca@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-012X

Andrew H. Beck

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AHB is a co-founder and equity holder in PathAI, Inc. At the time of writing, AHB received a stipend as a specialty consulting editor for PLOS Medicine and served on the journal's editorial board.

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