Episode 44: A Precise Depiction of Precision Medicine

Vivek Subbiah, MD, associate professor in the department of investigational cancer therapeutics, MD Anderson, is the world-renowned guest on the show this week to tackle the world of precision medicine in cancer. He begins by explaining how precision medicine is more than simply a “fancier” mechanism of treatment than chemotherapy, why tumor sequencing is important even though there aren’t drugs available for every possible mutation, how much the field has advanced even in the past 10 years, the intricacies of designing clinical trials, and lots more.

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