Pathology

Programme description

The Department of Pathology of the National Cancer Institute of Milan includes Divisions of Surgical Pathology, Molecular Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, highly integrated and fully equipped with the most recent technologies, including next-generation sequencing platforms. Its mission is to provide clinically actionable diagnoses including all the prognostic and predictive data for patients with all cancer types except CNS tumors. The Department is also very active in translational research, focused on the discovery and the clinical relevance of predictive biomarkers, genomic and epigenetic profiling, and resistance to targeted therapy.