Abstract:CUP is a relatively common diagnosis that accounts for 3-9% of all cancers. The prognosis is poor with median survival of approximately 9 months. The identification of the primary tumor and therapy targets could improve the survival of these patients. We employed the BostonGene Tumor PortraitTM platform to interrogate 19 CUP cases. Trained on >19,000 samples and validated on 28,000 samples from independent datasets, the machine-learning based algorithm integrates whole-exome and RNA sequencing (WES and … Show more
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