Pavlos Msaouel: Exceptions prove the rule and teach us greatly
COA (Chromophobe and Oncocytic Tumor Alliance) shared a post on X, about recent paper published in JCO Precision Oncology:
Authors: Bradley R. Webster, Christopher J. Ricketts, Cathy D. Vocke, Dionna Gamble, Daniel R. Crooks, Ye Yang, Lindsay Friedman, Antoun Toubaji, Pavlos Msaouel, Jonathan M. Hernandez, W. Marston Linehan, Mark W. Ball.
”Molecular Characterization of Metastatic Oncocytoma With Exceptional Response to Treatment: A Case Report.”
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Mark Ball, Urologic Oncologist at NCI, shared COA’s post on X, adding:
”Thank you for sharing our manuscript. Some folks may be skeptical that an oncocytoma can have metastatic potential – we threw the book at this case to make sure we were not misclassifying or missing anything. Rare cases deserve a deep dive and proud that our teamscience approach across disciplines and institutions could do that.”
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Pavlos Msaouel, Medical Oncologist in the GU Department at MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared Mark Ball’s post on X, adding:
”Well said! Exceptions prove the rule and teach us greatly. In fact, if our prior probability was, eg, 0.1% that metastatic oncocytoma exists, this well-characterized case report provided ~10 bits of information for us simply by showing the existence of this scenario.”
Source: Pavlos Msaouel/X