Would you offer a bone marrow biopsy to the patient with normal CBC and low MDS-associated mutation burden found on NGS?
E.g. TET2 mutation at < 10% allele frequency
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Would you offer a bone marrow biopsy to the patient with normal CBC and MDS-associated mutation found on NGS?
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Medical Oncology · UC San Diego Health
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Generally speaking, we don't perform NGS sequencing for MDS-associated somatic mutations in individuals with normal blood counts. However, the issue does arise when cancer patients undergo blood-based sequencing for other reasons, for example. And, in the future, we may see more mutation testing in ...
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