Cancer Precision Medicine: Where Are We?

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Cancer Precision Medicine: Where Are We?

NIH announces the launch of 3 integrated precision medicine trials; ALCHEMIST is for patients with certain types of early-stage lung cancer, August 2014 

National Cancer Institute's Precision Medicine Initiatives for the New National Clinical Trials Network.Jeffrey Abrams et al. ASCO Annual Meeting 2014 

Personalized medicine: Special treatment. 
Michael Eisenstein. Nature, September 11, 2014

Why the controversy? Start sequencing tumor genes at diagnosis. Tumor sequencing at the time of diagnosis can give significant insight for successful cancer treatment, by Shelly Gunn, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Sep 10  

National Cancer Institute information: Precision medicine and targeted therapy

Genomics and precision oncology: What's a targeted therapy for cancer? An updated list of approved drugs from the National Cancer Institute (2014)

Therapy: This time it's personal
Gravitz L Nature 509, S52-S54 2014 May 29

Multi-marker solid tumor panels using next-generation sequencing to direct molecularly targeted therapies 
Michael Marrone, et al. PLoS Currents Evidence on Genomic Tests 2014 May 27

Impact of cancer genomics on precision medicine for the treatment of cancer, from the National Cancer Institute

Cancer genomics and precision medicine in the 21st century  [PDF 2.20 MB], power point presentation from the National Human Genome Research Institute