There are some pretty big questions people need to ask before they agree to a chemotherapy regimen, especially if treatment was based on guidelines alone. Can the doctor do a better job of predicting which cancer drug(s) will have the best chance ... [Read More]
The Most Personalized Approach To Picking Cancer Drugs
Functional drug sensitivity assays use a sample of living tumor tissue (from a biopsy of your tumor) to help predict which drugs will be most effective in killing your cancer. The development, validation and clinical implementation of these assays is ... [Read More]
Dr. Lawenda Discusses Colorectal Cancer Care
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Dr. Lawenda Discusses A Better Way To Choose Cancer Drugs
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Dr. Lawenda Discusses What To Do When Treatments Are Not Working
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Dr. Lawenda Discusses Precision Medicine in Cancer Care
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Cancer Requires Personalized Treatment
Most of us in oncology like to say that we practice “personalized” medicine. What we mean by this is that we take into account many patient and cancer-specific variables when we formulate our treatment recommendations. These include such things ... [Read More]