Signatures Precision Medicine Program
"This is what we want for every patient. We shouldn’t just be waiting until a child is told they are incurable to investigate the best ways to personalize treatment."Dr Giselle Sholler
The launch of a new clinical trial called PEDS-PLAN in September of 2015 marks a paradigm shift in childhood cancer treatment and precision medicine — the first time DNA and RNA sequencing are being done in newly diagnosed patients.
Personalized medicine... precision medicine... molecularly guided therapy (MGT)... genomics. They’re different terms for what is generally the same concept — personalizing treatment per patient based on specific genetic or molecular analysis. In childhood cancer, genomics is being used to beat cancer on a kid by kid basis.
Abstracts and Publications
Precision Medicine Trials
History: Our Work with Precision Medicine
The image below is from a detailed blog post written at beatnb.org.
