Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care

Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care Clinical Application of Computational Methods in Precision Oncology : Proceedings of a Workshop

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A hallmark of high-quality cancer care is the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Precision oncology therapies, which target specific genetic changes in a patient's cancer, are changing the nature of cancer treatment by allowing clinicians to select therapies that are most likely to benefit individual patients. In current clinical practice, oncologists are increasingly formulating cancer treatment plans using results from complex laboratory and imaging tests that characterize the molecular underpinnings of an individual patient's cancer. These molecular fingerprints can be quite complex and heterogeneous, even within a single patient. To enable these molecular tumor characterizations to effectively and safely inform cancer care, the cancer community is working to develop and validate multiparameter omics tests and imaging tests as well as software and computational methods for interpretation of the re

Book information

ISBN: 9780309490818
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Imprint: The National Academies Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.994075
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xx, 71
Weight: 181g
Height: 226mm
Width: 150mm
Spine width: 8mm