Cancer Genetics and Genomics Program

News

2025

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of Fighting Childhood Cancer with Breakthrough Research Initiatives (Alex's Lemonade Stand - March 20, 2025)

2024

ClinGen creates a robust, open-access platform to define the clinical relevance of genes and variants (Baylor College of Medicine - October 24, 2024)

2022

Texas Children’s Hospital specialized clinic helps prevent childhood cancer (KPRC 2 Houston Life - September 19, 2022)

5 things a pediatric oncologist wants you to know about preventing cancer (KPRC 2 - February 16, 2022)

Dr. Ricardo Flores on KXLN-TV (UNIVISION - February 25, 2022)(En Español)

2021

Baylor awarded NIH funding for Clinical Genome Resource (Baylor College of Medicine - September 22, 2021)

2020

Understanding the cancer risk in children with birth defects (Baylor College of Medicine - June 25, 2020)

NHGRI-funded KidsCanSeq study brings clinical sequencing to Texas hospitals (Precision Oncology News - May 15, 2020)

2019

Pediatric precision medicine approach proven possible in pediatric MATCH trial (OncLive - May 15, 2019)

Pediatric MATCH trial finds more frequent targetable genetic alterations in pediatric cancers than predicted (American Society of Clinical Oncology - May 15, 2019)

Pediatric MATCH study finds more targetable genetic changes than expected (National Cancer Institute - May 15, 2019)

ASCO: Promising start to pediatric MATCH trial (Cancer Network - May 15, 2019)

2018

The Results of Your Genetic Test Are Reassuring. But That Can Change (New York Times - October 16, 2018)