Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?
A person’s genes alone don’t tell us enough about how to most effectively treat their cancer.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Precision Medicine: A medical model that tailors specific drugs to specific patients based on genetic profiling.
- Functional Precision Medicine: A medical model that involves directly treating live tumor cells with drugs to gain information about a patient's tumor.
- HER2-positive cancer: A type of cancer caused by a specific excess growth factor protein that has been shown to be treatable by specific medications.
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