Pediatric oncology enters an era of precision medicine

This article reviews the early studies in pediatric oncology showing the feasibility of this approach, describe the future plans to evaluate the clinical implications in a multicenter clinical trial and identify the challenges of applying genomics in this patient population.

Source: Current Problems in Cancer - February 1, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Nita L. Seibel, Katherine Janeway, Carl E. Allen, Susan N. Chi, Yoon-Jae Cho, Julia L. Glade Bender, AeRang Kim, Theodore W. Laetsch, Meredith S. Irwin, Naoko Takebe, James V. Tricoli, Donald Williams Parsons Source Type: research