CHICAGO – In the future fight against cancer, doctors are looking beyond afflicted organs—whether lung, brain or stomach—and finding new answers by disrupting the genetic mechanisms of specific tumor cells.
Novel cancer drugs at the center of a major medical meeting this week point to a future in which patients are more routinely tested for gene mutations underlying their cancer to match them with a targeted treatment.
That would represent a major shift from the current medical
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