Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Ruiz-Garcia, Erika; Astudillo-de la Vega, Horacio

Being a complex disease that affects millions of people world over, cancer research has assumed great significance. Translational cancer research transforms scientific discoveries in the laboratory into clinical application to reduce incidence of cancer, morbidity and mortality. On the other hand, personalized medicine in cancer is the concept that selection of a treatment should be tailored according to the individual patient’s specific genomic characteristics, including mutations, chromosomal aberrations, protein interactions, and SNPs, and even more, taking into account the inmume system, the metabolism and maybe in the next future also the microbiome. 

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2019-11-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030240998

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24100-1

Dimensions: 254cm x178cm

Pages: 171