Each year, more than 1.8 million people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer. Despite new therapies coming to market and advances in personalized medicine, over half a million patients die annually from cancer in the United States alone. Four types – breast, pancreas, colon and rectum, and lung and bronchus – result in the most deaths each year: 42,680 (breast); 51,980 (pancreas); 52,900 (colon and rectum); and 124,730 (lung and bronchus). Besides heart disease, cancer delivers the most deaths in the United States annually. For those under 65, cancer spikes to the leading cause of death.

Genomic profiling advancements have paved the way for identifying the different types of cancers, such as connecting BRCA1 or BRCA2 to breast cancer, the KRAS biomarker for

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