Episode 110
Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross - HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine
Apr 18, 2022
1:20:12
Episode Description
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Jeffrey Ross
What we discuss with Dr Ross:
- How he got started in medicine and pathology, and his thoughts on exposing medical students to pathology
- His experience during residency of handling a specimen for an estrogen receptor trial
- How he decided to focus on the HER2/neu gene, and some of his work in that area
- HER2 testing by IHC and by FISH, and which he thought was better
- Liquid biopsy, and how it may be used in the future
- The origin of Foundation Medicine
- Some of the work that Foundation Medicine does
- The impact that Foundation Medicine has had on patients, and a few of their stories
Links for this episode:
A New Era for Pathologists' Assistants - Voicebrook Blog
Faculty Profile SUNY Upstate - Dr Jeffrey Ross
A Brief History of Breast Cancer
Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary SiteNew Routes to Targeted Therapies
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