The underlying tenet of Personalized Cancer Medicine is that no two cancers are the same. Each patient has a unique genetic code, producing tumours of various sizes, locations, metastases, and drug responses
Many years ago, it was widely believed that cancers were similar across patients, and that all patients with cancers of the same type should be treated with similar treatments.
Our immune system provides an amazing line of defense against a whole host of viruses and bacteria. Researchers have found the immune system even mounts its own attacks when cancer begins. So why does it fail? And how can we help it succeed?
Stem cells are the body's "master cells,” which are capable of developing into the various organs and tissues of the body.
In the same way that cancers differ from one person to another, cancer cells within a single tumour can behave differently from each other. This is due in part to variations in the microenvironment within individual tumours