Friday, 2 June 2017

The Era of Individualized Medicine in Cancer

Medicine in CancerTreatment strategies mostly based on chemoradiotherapy are not efficient for a number of cancer patients. Moreover, targeted therapy has been shown to confer benefits, in some cancer types, for only a subset of patients.

Therefore, there is a consensus among scientists and the medical community that the molecular information of a particular tumor is necessary to support clinical decisions even if considering the limited list of drugs available.

Despite the advances in the development of targeted and immunotherapies, improvement of response also rely on interpretation of tumor profile.

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