Pharmacy Times July 31, 2023
Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute

Physicians can make an exact diagnosis and prognosis and plan treatment that targets a specific tumor with great precision.

Precision oncology, or personalized medicine, uses sophisticated genomic testing to identify a person’s cancer cells. With this information, physicians can make an exact diagnosis and prognosis and plan treatment that targets a specific tumor with great precision. Dr. Lucio Gordan has spearheaded efforts to establish next-generation genomic testing capabilities in-house at FCS. The statewide practice expanded its state-of-the-art Pathology Laboratory in Fort Myers in 2021 and is providing patients with clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS) for testing solid tumors, hematologic malignancies and lymph nodes.

A Board-certified medical oncologist, one of Dr. Gordan’s dreams is to make sure that patients are appropriately tested...

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