Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy

Description:

This book presents the latest advances in precision medicine in some of the most common cancer types, including hematological, lung and breast malignancies. It also discusses emerging technologies that are making a significant impact on precision medicine in cancer therapy. In addition to describing specific approaches that have already entered clinical practice, the book explores new concepts and tools that are being developed. Precision medicine aims to deliver personalized healthcare tailored to a patient’s genetics, lifestyle and environment, and cancer therapy is one of the areas in which it has flourished in recent years. Documenting the latest advances, this book is of interest to physicians and clinical fellows in the front line of the war on cancer, as well as to basic scientists working in the fields of cancer biology, drug development, biomarker discovery, and biomedical engineering. The contributing authors include translational physicians with first-hand experience in precision patient care.

Table of contents:

Part I. Individual Types of Cancer Precision Medicine

1. Targeted Therapies in Non-small-Cell Lung Cancer

2. Update on Precision Medicine in Breast Cancer

3. The Role of Precision Medicine in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Rare Cancers

Part II. Currently Available Techniques

4. Immunohistochemistry-Enabled Precision Medicine

5. Genomics-Enabled Precision Medicine for Cancer

6. Utilization of Proteomic Technologies for Precision Oncology Applications

7. Precision Medicine-Enabled Cancer Immunotherapy

Part III. Future Precision Medicine

8. Use of Precision Imaging in the Evaluation of Pancreas Cancer

9. Single-Cell Sequencing in Precision Medicine

10. Human Microbiota and Personalized Cancer Treatments: Role of Commensal Microbes in Treatment Outcomes for Cancer Patients

11. Artificial Intelligence and Personalized Medicine