Giampaolo Tortora is a medical oncologist who directs the Gemelli comprehensive cancer centre.
Giampaolo Tortora is Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli in Rome and Professor of Medical Oncology. His specialisms are medical oncology, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and targeted therapy, with a research background in EGFR signalling and pancreatic cancer. His papers include the Annals of Oncology paper introducing ESCAT, the ESMO Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets, which ranks genomic alterations as targets for precision medicine, a review of PTEN as predictor and target in colorectal cancer, and a paper on pneumonitis from immune checkpoint inhibitors during COVID-19. His publications are listed on PubMed.
| Title | Journal | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A framework to rank genomic alterations as targets for cancer precision medicine: the ESMO Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets (ESCAT) | Annals of Oncology | 2018 |
| PTEN in Colorectal Cancer: Shedding Light on Its Role as Predictor and Target | Cancers | 2019 |
| Pneumonitis from immune checkpoint inhibitors and COVID-19: current concern in cancer treatment | Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer | 2020 |