October 25, 2009
Cancer Treatment New and Improved
Cancer treatment has advanced tremendously in the last few decades. With more and better ways to stop the disease, doctors can give people the chance at long-term survival after diagnosis. As well, screening options for many types of cancer continue to improve. This allows for more cancers to be detected early, when they are most treatable and most likely to be cured.
Now comes news of a new method for determining the best way to treat many cancers. Researchers from the University of Virginia Health System have developed a way to rapidly sort through genetic information about each patient’s tumor. The genetic and molecular characteristics of each tumor can then be used to determine a precise drug treatment that is most likely to be successful for each person.
Currently, many patients end up going through a sort of “trial and error” process as their doctors try one treatment after another, to figure [...]
Source: About Colon Cancer
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