New Biology-Based Tumor Analysis Beats Location Approach — SkimNews
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- Cancer treatment has historically been organized around where tumors appear in the body rather than their underlying characteristics.
- A new approach that analyses tumours differently is now helping patients survive forms of cancer that were once considered a death sentence.
Why it matters: Patients with cancers previously considered untreatable are now surviving under this biology-based approach, marking a departure from the decades-old practice of organizing oncology by tumor location.
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