Claudio Luchini
University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Italy
Biography
Claudio Luchini, MD, is a surgical pathologist with expertise in the field of next-generation sequencing and of systematic review with meta-analysis. He has studied in Italy (Verona University) and also in USA at Indiana University and at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. With next-generation sequencing, he has published some important works, for example in Journal of Clinical Oncology. With the tool of meta-analysis he has highlighted the prognostic role of the presence of extra-nodal extension of nodal metastasis in several cancer types, like colorectal and breast cancer. The main goals of his research is to find morphological and molecular markers for early diagnosis of tumors or to better stratify cancer prognosis.