Testing for genes, proteins, or other substances to find out if:
- A cancer is more likely to grow and spread
- A certain treatment is likely or unlikely to be helpful
- Treatment is working
- A person might be at higher risk for some cancers
- Someone might have a certain type of cancer (although a biopsy is typically needed to know for sure
- Cancer might be returning
Also called
tumor testing, tumor genetic testing, tumor subtyping, and genomic testing, or genomic profiling.