In the latest phase of its plan to invest over $1 billion in Orange County, City of Hope has opened a multi-specialty outpatient cancer center in the county and hired 29 physicians to practice there.
Over the past three decades, cancer genetics has transformed precision oncology. Germline testing has advanced from single-gene Sanger sequencing to parallel sequencing of hundreds of genes, while tumor (somatic) testing has expanded with the rise of targeted therapies based on point mutations, copy number changes and other alterations.
