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ZGatalica · 06-17-2011, 07:45 AM

Chelee,

The medical staff at Caris Life Sciences is available to discuss your report with your oncologist. Staff members are available Monday through Friday and the company will also triage calls after hours, in which case, someone will return your oncologist’s call the next business day. The Caris phone number is 800.901.5177.

The Caris Target Now report can seem complex at first read and the responses you received from your oncologists are not unusual. In some cases, although rare, the report doesn’t reveal treatment options that the physician hadn’t already considered. However, with the depth of information in the report, this is not the rule. Encouraging your doctor to walk through the report with someone on the Caris medical staff would be a good way to be certain.

The report is designed to highlight the therapies that might work against the biomarkers found in the tissue sample your physician submitted. It also has a lot of information about biomarkers your tissue expressed (or did not express) and this can get complex for even experienced oncologists, who are adept at getting you the best therapy. There are many good therapies from which oncologists can choose and not all of them require the latest diagnostic methods to select.

I hope you find this information helpful.

06-17-2011, 07:45 AM	#17
ZGatalica Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 2	Re: Has anyone had a tumor sensitivity test done? Chelee, The medical staff at Caris Life Sciences is available to discuss your report with your oncologist. Staff members are available Monday through Friday and the company will also triage calls after hours, in which case, someone will return your oncologist’s call the next business day. The Caris phone number is 800.901.5177. The Caris Target Now report can seem complex at first read and the responses you received from your oncologists are not unusual. In some cases, although rare, the report doesn’t reveal treatment options that the physician hadn’t already considered. However, with the depth of information in the report, this is not the rule. Encouraging your doctor to walk through the report with someone on the Caris medical staff would be a good way to be certain. The report is designed to highlight the therapies that might work against the biomarkers found in the tissue sample your physician submitted. It also has a lot of information about biomarkers your tissue expressed (or did not express) and this can get complex for even experienced oncologists, who are adept at getting you the best therapy. There are many good therapies from which oncologists can choose and not all of them require the latest diagnostic methods to select. I hope you find this information helpful.