We know that cancer is not a disease, but more than 200 different types of tumours, and that its diversity is not depleted in the type of tumour. Thus, three people with lung cancer, for example, will benefit from three different treatments. And one with gastric cancer can respond to a medication used in breast cancer.

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Citation

Citation: Adrian Pablo Hunis. “Revolution of Oncology 2020. Targeted Therapies based on the Genomics of Each Patient”.Acta Scientific Cancer Biology 4.6 (2020): 08-11.

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Copyright: © 2020 Adrian Pablo Hunis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.