The long-awaited era of personalized genetic medicine may finally be arriving for people with cancer. Some cancer centres are preparing to screen all patients for genetic glitches associated with the disease, and scientists are starting to use detailed information about patients' tumour genomes to decide which treatments might benefit them most. "Oncology is absolutely farther down this road of personalized medicine than other areas," says Joan Scott, deputy director of the Genetics & Public Policy Center in Washington DC.
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