Precision Medicine

What does the future hold for cancer treatment? What new insights will be translated into successful tumor treatments? Leading oncologist ...

"Cancer is not a fixed disease, cancer adapts and evolves, and that's the challenge in treating cancer - but you ...

Hormone therapy against breast cancer is often limited by developing resistance. Leading oncologist and precision medicine expert discusses new approaches ...

Cancer is increasing with aging, so there are key genes that affect both processes. Leading cancer researcher and clinical oncologist ...

Precision medicine means we have to select targeted cancer treatment based on unique tumor mutations [and not on just tumor's ...

Recurring or relapsed leukemia is a major treatment challenge. Leading pediatric cancer expert explains how genetic alterations in cancer cells ...

Treatment of cancer has shifted from treating tumors by tissue origin to selecting targeted therapies based on genetic and molecular ...

Genomic sequencing [NGS, WES] of tumors is now common. But why do you need to sequence both cancer tissue from ...

Personalized medicine or precision medicine? Top pediatric hematologist oncologist explains the difference and shares new insights into cutting-edge leukemia treatment ...

Mutations that increase cancer risks often cannot be deduced from patient's family history or other screening tests. This includes breast ...

Gene therapy as a magic bullet against cancer captures imagination but progress has been slow. Leading cancer expert and researcher ...

Next Generation Sequencing, NGS, or, Whole Exome Sequencing, WES, allows more granular assessment of individual cancer risks and reactions to ...

Curosurf co-inventor, Dr. Tore Curstedt, is still active in drug development and plans to bring to patients a new, synthetic ...

Leading ophthalmologist reviews advances in Macular degeneration treatment [AMD], including challenges and therapy update in "dry AMD" therapy: And there's ...

"Real-time information about the DNA, about the gene expression patterns can now titrate the therapies, optimize the therapies and customize ...

Two people with same two genes differ in risks of cancer or autoimmune disease - "nurture" constantly affects "nature". Precision ...

Real time diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancer in a physician's office can help to select best "precision medicine" treatment: ...

Fast Zika virus diagnosis is especially important in pregnancy. Inventor of Gene-RADAR point-of-care testing explains how it helps fast diagnosis ...

If two epilepsy treatment medications fail to work after correct dose and schedule, then seizures are said to be drug-resistant ...

Many seizure types exist and some epilepsy symptoms are difficult to recognize. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures - violent shaking of the ...

Imprecise diagnosis of epilepsy and wrong treatment can cause life-long seizures. Precise type of seizure diagnosis leads to correct epilepsy ...

Harvard-trained cancer surgeon on benefits and risks of minimally invasive, robotic, and laparoscopic colon cancer and rectal cancer surgery: Minimally ...

Precision medicine treatment of MS starts with precise diagnosis at the molecular level. JC virus autoantibodies predict risks of natalizumab ...

Alzheimers disease treatment at early stages with vaccine to prevent neurodegeneration is becoming a reality. Leading immunology expert: - Alzheimer's ...

New therapies for multiple sclerosis target specific immune cells, like B-cells. Leading MS expert explains: - You are one of ...

Up to 65% of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients progress eventually to secondary progressive phase of MS. How changes in immune ...

In era of precision medicine every patient must be evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of top-notch experts. This is the ...

Stem cells, mitochondria disfunction, right heart failure, and pulmonary hypertension - leading physician shows the complexity of precise diagnosis and ...

Being short of breath, especially on exertion, is a common symptom. Real causes are often missed and can be hard ...

Prominent lung cancer surgeon and gene therapy + immunotherapy expert explains progress and future in precision medicine lung tumor treatment: ...

Is it lung cancer? Do biopsy or serial CT scans to follow? PET CT? How often to image small lung ...

Some lung cancer patients may not tolerate surgery - when other cutting-edge therapies are indicated? Leading lung cancer surgeon explains: ...

Cancer treatment continues to rely on chemotherapy, with targeted cancer drugs selectively available for some tumors. Leading cancer expert: See ...

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Individual cancer risk genetic testing is getting widespread. Cancer genetic tests are moving into mainstream medicine. Rare mutations are not ...

Tegretol side effects in Asians include Stevens-Johnson syndrome. It is a potentially fatal skin sloughing condition. One mutation increases risk ...

Multiple sclerosis genetic risk factors are determined by genetic ancestry at individual gene level. Person of African descent can have ...

Genetic ancestry tests and precision medicine are becoming widely used in medicine. Genetic profiling of tumors helps to choose additional ...

How genes affect response to medication. Examples of individual variability in response to asthma treatment and Plavix (clopidogrel). Plavix is ...

Prostate cancer - what is Index Lesion? How it helps to choose best treatment option for each patient? ...

Prostate cancer diagnosis risks - can you overdiagnose and overtreat? ...

How to select correct chemotherapy medication for use in Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) "We have to move from anatomical organ-based ...

Hematology advanced treatments. Gene therapy holds a lot of promise to advance blood disorders treatments. Genomics transformation leads to many ...

How to predict survival for each colorectal cancer patient? How precision medicine treatment of colorectal cancer can influence prognosis? How ...

Precision medicine is here for colorectal cancer treatment. But current tumor classification is often not optimal for selection of correct ...

Leading Swiss gastrointestinal cancer surgeon discusses delicate liver cancer surgery technique that originated from Japan. Gentle resection of only liver ...

Leading Swiss gastrointestinal cancer surgeon discusses importance of healthy liver preservation in metastatic liver cancer or primary liver cancer surgery ...

What advances in stage 4 colon cancer treatment can we expect? Education of doctors about benefits of liver (and lung) ...

New technologies complement liver cancer surgery in treatment of metastatic colon cancer. What is selective internal radiation therapy, SIRT? Transarterial ...

Treatment of metastatic stage 4 colon cancer to the liver frequently involves starting with systemic chemotherapy. Surgery to resect primary ...

Colon cancer treatment advances in precision medicine era: “In next few years we will do full molecular profiling of the ...

“I think we are living in a very interesting time for colon cancer treatment. Today I think I can cure ...

Colon cancer stem cells (tumor initiating cells) are the culprits when metastatic stage 4 colon cancer treatment fails. “So we ...

Both genetic profile of colon cancer tumor AND genetic makeup of the patient are important in treatment plan selection. Modern ...

“Liquid biopsy” for metastatic colon cancer diagnostics and treatment monitoring in real time. What is liquid biopsy? Why circulating tumor ...

Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer can help a select group of patients. “BRAF, microsatellite instability (MSI), KRAS and NRAS molecular tumor ...

Recent progress in colon cancer tumor mutations profiling. Up to 500 tumor mutations are now tested, including KRAS, NRAS, BRAF ...

Toxicity prediction in colorectal cancer treatment. Colorectal cancer gene profiling helps to identify patients who will likely experience significant toxicity ...

What are important trends in cancer treatment today? Why patients should know and follow these best cancer treatment practices? Leading ...

How to select chemotherapy for each individual patient? What is the best combination of medications to beat cancer forever? This ...

Current sequential chemotherapy in so-called "lines" is ineffective and outdated. Leading cancer genetics expert talks about new approach to choose ...

Leading Colorectal Cancer Expert on latest trends in colon and rectal cancer treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. How to select ...

How epigenetic changes can predict cancer prognosis? How micro RNA can help select personalized therapy for colorectal cancer? Leading colorectal ...

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