Letter to Our Readers

Reflections on Personalizing Oncology Care in 2016

Dear Colleague, As the close of 2016 approaches and we look forward to the year ahead, I would like to thank you, our Personalized Medicine in Oncology (PMO) reading community, for your support, contributions, and loyal readership. In our pages and on our website, we have offered the best in [ Read More ]

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

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 ]

Personalized Medicine Impacts All Phases of Care from Clinical Trial Design to Palliative Care

Dear Colleague, Personalizing medicine has had a tremendous impact on the way we treat illness in this country. The ability to glean information from a patient’s genetic makeup that helps us to successfully treat that patient has forever changed how we view disease. Our increased knowledge about genetic implications of [ Read More ]

Exploring Topics in Personalized Medicine to Improve the Patient Experience, Quality of Life, and Therapeutic Outcomes

Dear Colleague, The vast majority of our coverage in Personalized Medicine in Oncology focuses on our ability to identify genetic mutations, unique protein expressions, and other significant biomarkers for which we can tailor individual therapy. In this issue, we broaden that scope by exploring several topics that are related to [ Read More ]

Presenting Emerging Data and Calling for Molecular Tumor Board Case Studies

Dear Colleague, On behalf of all of us at Personalized Medicine in Oncology (PMO), I hope you are enjoying the summer and finding time for the recreation necessary to return to the care of your patients with a renewed spirit. After the busy ASCO season, we have taken advantage of [ Read More ]

Personalized Medicine in Oncology: Expanding Our Knowledge of Precision Medicine

Dear Colleague, This issue of Personalized Medicine in Oncology (PMO) is a testament to how far we’ve come in our understanding of, and novel approaches to, the treatment of cancer. Armed with knowledge of molecular biomarkers, genetic mutations, genomics, immunotherapeutics, and targeted therapies, we are better able to treat patients [ Read More ]

Serving All on the Oncology Care Team

Dear Colleague,Over the past decade, we’ve experienced tremendous changes in the way we care for and treat patients with cancer. From research targets to available treatments; from management strategies to the very makeup of the multidisciplinary team. The publishers of Personalized Medicine in Oncology (PMO) recognize that to provide the [ Read More ]

Making Strides in Personalizing Medicine

Dear Colleague, This generation has witnessed amazing advances in the realm of precision medicine. It has learned that making personalized medicine a reality takes forward movement on many fronts—from basic research to novel drugs, from clinical trials to policy. Within our pages, we strive to present the full range of [ Read More ]

The Wide Range of Topics Under the Personalized Care Umbrella

Dear Colleague, One important lesson we have learned from our work in personalizing care for oncology patients is that there are many more considerations in implementing care aside from the obvious premises of targeted therapies, companion diagnostics, and next-generation sequencing. There is an ever-broadening array of considerations that goes into [ Read More ]

On the Cutting Edge of Personalizing Care:
From Molecular Tumor Boards to Cancer Stem Cell Research

Dear Colleague, It is with great enthusiasm that we present this, our first issue of 2016, to you. You will find that we are adapting our presentations to meet the learning needs of our reading community. Specifically, we are expanding our case study presentations to reflect trends in academia as [ Read More ]

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