Personalized Cancer Assessment Upon Diagnosis Could Greatly Aid Treatment Planning
Precision medicine involves understanding the genetic makeup of every patient’s disease and tumor before giving a diagnosis and beginning treatment while personalized medicine means recognizing that the same ailment can behave differently in different patients. A study conducted recently by researchers from the School of Medicine at UC San Diego and Moores Cancer Center at the University of California San Diego has found that carrying out genomic evaluations of advanced malignancies can help guide initial treatment. Their findings were published in “Genome Medicine.” Cancers are complex on a molecular level, with each type made up of a different combination of…
