Dr. Dino Prato explains that tumors constantly adapt through mutations and chromosomal shattering, creating thousands of genomic rearrangements. Most cancer patients never get deep genomic testing, so clinicians miss these dynamic changes. The result: extra copies of growth-promoting genes that fuel faster progression.
Many patients never get deep comprehensive testing that shows you what the tumor's really doing and why this matters. It's because tumors don't just grow, they adapt and they level up fast. Cancer cells can get messy mutations and sometimes the chromosomes get blown up, breaks into many pieces and gets stitched back together in the wrong way, leading to thousands of rearrangements. And when that stitching is messy, you can get copy number changes. That means that the tumor can end up with many more copies of growth genes than normal.
