January 2nd/2012
Personalized Cancer Treatment: Seeking Cures Through Computation
Incremental progress and measured successes
Personalized cancer therapy is now a reality. A handful of tumor-classifying tests and targeted drugs are in widespread clinical use; and early attempts are underway to match high-risk cancer patients to experimental drugs based on genetic testing of their tumors.
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The last ten years have seen huge leaps in biomedical computing.