The research indicated that patients with lung and breast cancer who were plaved in the low-risk group, based on their genes, spent a longer time being relapse free. Professor Pan-Chyr Yang believes that this discovery is crucial to improving cancer treatment in patients. It also would be beneficial in individualizing cancer treatments, and can hopefully one day be applied to other forms of cancer other than lung and breast.
I believe that personalized chemotherapy can be a great new way to treat cancer. Cancer is not the same in every person and it only makes sense if they are all treated differently. Choosing a personalized chemotherapy does come with it's costs, and it might not be affordable to all, as is explained in the following article. I do also worry about the financial and time consuming aspects of the research itself, however I suspect it will all be worth it.
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