Personalized
Cancer Therapy
Individualized
tumor treatment methods are in developing stage and are based on the genetic
profile of different cancers. This would be an alternative to giving patients
generalized medicines. The idea behind the research is that if medications are
designed to target individual patients based on their unique cancers then such
medicines should be more effective than general anti-cancer drugs.
The research has
been advanced by the data made available from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), funded by the US National
Institutes of Health. This analysis has shown that from more than 3000 samples
there are broadly 12 different tumor types. Of these, a limited number of
specific genetic events appear to cause most tumor subtypes and tumors. By
understanding more about these tumors then specialized medicines can be
developed.
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