Prospective high-throughput genome profiling of advanced cancers: Results of the PERMED-01 clinical trial

The benefit of precision medicine based on relatively limited gene sets and often-archived samples remains unproven. PERMED-01 (NCT02342158) was a prospective monocentric clinical trial assessing, in adults with advanced solid cancer, the feasibility and impact of extensive molecular profiling applied to newly biopsied tumor sample and based on targeted NGS (t-NGS) of the largest gene panel to date and whole-genome arraycomparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) with assessment of single-gene alterations and clinically relevant genomic scores.