Policy Issues in the Development of Personalized Medicine in Oncology: Workshop Summary

by Margie Patlak and Laura Levit

One of the challenges in treating cancer is the disease's complexity and variation among patients. Cancer manifests differently in each patient, so treatments that are effective in one patient may not be effective in another. As cancer care becomes more personalized, subpopulations of individuals will be given preventive or therapeutic interventions based on their susceptibility to a particular disease or their predicted response to a specific treatment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309145759
• ISBN13: 9780309145756
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"