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Cancer Gene Give Treatment Personalised Medicine Breast Patients

The summary provides an example of personalized treatment where the activity of a specific mutated gene in 30% of breast cancer patients can be suppressed by a drug to reduce deaths.

O resumo fornece um exemplo de personalização do tratamento, onde a atividade de um gene mutado específico em 30% dos pacientes com câncer de mama pode ser suprimida por um medicamento para reduzir mortes.

Front Give an example of how treatment is being personalised.
Back Example of personalised medicine:
  • 30% of breast cancer patients have mutation on a certain gene
    • Activity of that gene can be shut down by a drug to reduce deaths from that type of cancer

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