Cancer is a heterogeneous disease, meaning differences exist not only between cancer cells from various patients, but also between cancer cells within a single patient. Cancer is constantly evolving to evade death, and this is why no single drug has been effective in “curing” cancer .
Usage of unique characteristics of each patient to focus, match and direct the most effective and precise treatments based not only on the genomic profiling of the patient and the cancer, but also on other unique characteristics distinguishing one patient from another is where the concept of precision oncology stems from. Every patient has a diverse and individualized genome, proteome, epigenome, micro-biome, lifestyle, diet, and other characteristics that interact to promote and influence cancer causation, disease progression, treatment options effectiveness, adverse events of drugs, remission, and…
