Towards Personalized Medicine for Cancer, Volume 1210

This volume explores cancer as an individualized problem and addresses the impact of recent advances in cancer biology, genetics, tumor profiling, and medical technology in the personalization of cancer predisposition, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and therapy development.

Featuring contributionsfrom basic and clinical scientists, this volume brings together work from different areas of individualized oncology to help improve the global concept of the personalized cancer care, and identify commonalities, pitfalls, and steps forward.

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