Researchers looking to aggregate and harmonize genomic data—a critical undertaking that would empower translational research in pediatric oncology—will face technical complexities that exceed the challenges of enabling interoperability between electronic health record systems, said Jinghui Zhang, the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and chair of the Department of Computational Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Three years ago, researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center published stunning results: For the 5% of rectal cancer patients whose tumors are mismatch-repair deficient, neoadjuvant dostarlimab-gxly (Jemperli) has the makings of a silver bullet.
