Cancer Research

Precision Medicine

Precision medicine is an expression that is regularly used to depict how genetic data about aperson’s disease is being utilized to treat their diseases. Cancer is an infection of the genome and as more is found out about growth tumors, the more we are finding that every tumor has its own arrangement of hereditary changes. Understanding the hereditary changes that are in disease cells is prompting more powerful treatment techniques that are custom fitted to the genetic profile of every patient's growth. Precision medicine helps doctors select treatments that are most likely to help patients based on a genetic understanding of their disease.