Al B. Benson III, MD, FACP, FASCO


Authored Items

Providing Practical Information to Promote Targeted, Effective, and Personalized Treatments

November 2016, Vol. 5, No. 9 - Letter to Our Readers

Dear Colleague, With every issue, all of us on the editorial staff of Personalized Medicine in Oncology (PMO) strive to provide members of multidisciplinary oncology teams practical information about research advances and improvements within the personalized medicine spectrum that allow for more targeted and effective treatments. We are pleased to [ Read More ]

PMO: Advancing the Practitioner’s Ability to Provide Customized Care to Patients

August 2014, Vol 3, No 5 - Letter to Our Readers

Dear Colleague, Until recently, cancer treatment relied solely on histological diagnosis for determining systemic therapy. Aside from considerations related to a patient’s underlying comorbidities and performance status, there was minimal deviation from an organ-of-origin–based treatment strategy. This relatively primitive understanding of malignancy failed to exploit biological and molecular differences within [ Read More ]

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