Cancer is often characterized as a serial murderer that needs to be struck down with brute force. But what researchers are slowly coming to understand is that this idea might actually make individual cancers stronger. The newest research very clearly exemplifies how a single "most-wanted" sign is not going to work to identify the veritable army of characteristics that a single tumor might have. The new paradigm of cancer heterogeneity has only just emerged within the past few years and is yet to be assimilated into every day patient management. Here is a snapshot of what the fields of radiomics and genetic research are working on to outsmart cancer in all its complexity.
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