Medical Xpress July 14, 2025
“Precision medicine” has become increasingly popular in the last decade as an avenue for cancer therapy, where treatment strategies are tailored to a specific patient based on the unique characteristics of their disease and their personal background. These unique disease characteristics (called “phenotypes”) help guide physicians in choosing the most effective treatments.
Using precision medicine can lead to better survival rates and improve the quality of life for patients with cancer. However, while there have been major breakthroughs in using this approach to treat cancer and test new drugs, the tools used to identify disease phenotypes have lagged.
Currently, identifying these phenotypes often requires expensive tests, such as those that examine molecular markers, use special stains on tissue samples, or...
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