Why tumor typing is important, David Botstein
Interviewee: David Botstein. David Botstein talks about how tumor typing using genome-wide analysis will help doctors determine the most appropriate treatments for their patients. (DNAi Location: Applications > Genes and medicine > Genetic profiling > David Botstein > Why tumor typing is important)
And the reason that's important for patients is that treatments that work for one kind of tumor may not work for another kind of tumor, even though they look the same to the pathologist. And under the circumstances where we can separate the apples from the oranges, we can actually apply the cure for the orange disease to the oranges, and not have it confused by the response of the apples which may be no response or even a bad response. In leukemia, especially childhood leukemia, this has been very successful with even very standard treatments, so that we believe is going to be an immediate benefit to the patients.
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