How Can We Better Leverage Advances in Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment

Investment in research has led to advances in detection and treatment of cancer that are leading to earlier and more accurate diagnoses and more targeted treatments that often carry less side effects. I’m so pleased that guest blogger Joydeep Goswami from Thermo Fisher Scientific is able to offer greater insight into these advances and the importance of making sure broad populations have access to these exciting new tools.

By Joydeep Goswami

President, Clinical Next Generation Sequencing and Oncology
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Technology Advances

Over the last several decades, scientific research has revealed that cancer is a disease primarily caused by mutations found in genes. Further studies have helped identify which key mutations develop into potentially deadly cancers. That information has helped researchers in the pharmaceutical industry to develop specially tailored therapies designed to target those mutations.

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