Predictive, Preventive & Personalized Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics

Personalized Medicine in lung Cancer

The era of personalized treatment for lung cancer will involve a comprehensive genomic characterization of adenocarcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma, and small-cell carcinoma into various subtypes. Precision medicine is to develop treatments that exploit weak spots in tumor cells to destroy only the cancer cells (as compared to traditional chemotherapy and radiation). Weak spots have been found in two genes, EGFR and ALK, both found in adenocarcinoma NSCLC.