Editorial The Front Line of Genomic Translation

License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cancer prevention, detection, and treatment represent the frontline of genomic translation. Increasingly, new genomic knowledge is being used to inform personalized cancer prevention recommendations and treatment [1–3]. Genomic applications proposed and realized span the full cancer con-tinuum, from cancer prevention and early detection vis a vis genomic risk profiles to motivate behavioral risk reduction and adherence [4] to screening and prophylactic prevention recommendations for high-risk families [5–7], to enhancing cancer survivorship by using genomic tumor profiles to inform treatment decisions and targeted cancer therapies [8, 9]. Yet the utility for many of these applications is as yet unclear and will be influenced heavily by the public’s