Extraordinary Opportunity: Molecular Classification of Tumors

**Semantic type:** Intellectual Product

**Definition:** Challenge to research community to revolutionize the classification of human tumors, away from classification based on morphology, toward a more clinically predictive and useful classification system based on molecular characterization of tumors. (Bypass Budget)

**Synonyms:** - Director's Challenge - Director's Challenge: Towards a Molecular Classification of Tumors - Extraordinary Opportunities: the Director's Challenge: Toward a Molecular Classification of Tumors - Extraordinary Opportunity: Defining the Signatures of Cancer Cells: Detection and Diagnosis - Molecular Fingerprinting Initiative - Molecular Profiling Initiative