Paulina Krzyszczyk, Alison Acevedo, Erika J Davidoff, Lauren M Timmins, Ileana Marrero-Berrios, Misaal Patel, Corina White, Christopher Lowe, Joseph J Sherba, Clara Hartmanshenn, Kate M O'Neill, Max L Balter, Zachary R Fritz, Ioannis P Androulakis, Rene S Schloss, Martin L Yarmush
Cancer is a devastating disease that takes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year. Due to disease heterogeneity, standard treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiation, are effective in only a subset of the patient population. Tumors can have different underlying genetic causes and may express different proteins in one patient versus another. This inherent variability of cancer lends itself to the growing field of precision and personalized medicine (PPM). There are many ongoing efforts to acquire PPM data in order to characterize molecular differences between tumors...
September 2018: Technology