Lina El Murr and Georges El Hachem*

Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebano

*Corresponding Author: Georges El Hachem, Medical Oncologist, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Balamand, Lebanon.

Received: November 29, 2022; Published: December 01, 2022

Abstract

Science and medicine have witnessed a major shift throughout the years and oncology is no stranger to these changes. The diagnosis of a disease and more specifically of a tumor has evolved from the basic histopathological staining and morphological analysis to a more precise identification of receptors and antibodies implicated in the tumor multiplication and more recently to a more peculiar analysis of genomics and molecular markers.

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Citation

Citation: Lina El Murr and Georges El Hachem. “Tumor-agnostic Therapy: Shifting the Lens from the Tumor Type to its Molecular Identity”. Acta Scientific Cancer Biology 7.1 (2023): 01.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Lina El Murr and Georges El Hachem. 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.