US Capitol Capsule: Making precision medicine a 'reality' in cancer, other diseases
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Executive Summary
Tailored approaches for preventing, diagnosing and treating disease – precision medicine – remains out of reach for most patients, although big news at this year's meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology about the latest advances in targeted cancer therapies and the role biomarkers play in determining whether a combination of drugs is better than monotherapy certainly demonstrates science has made enormous strides in the past 15 years.