'New era' of personalised cancer drugs, say doctors

Cancer is entering a "new era" of personalised medicine with drugs targeted to the specific weaknesses in each patient's tumour, say doctors. Precision medicine is one of the big themes at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Doctors say "breath-taking" advances in the understanding of tumours are being used to unlock new treatments. But there are also concerns that pat

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癌治療は新時代に入ったかも｡各患者の腫瘍ごとに､その特定の弱点に狙いを絞った､治療薬の利用｡癌細胞は､普通の細胞がDNAの変異により､成長が抑制できなくなったもの｡癌細胞は､細胞の中でさえ､同一ではない