Personalized Medicine’s Impact on Cancer Care

Jorge Cortes, MD

Video Categories: Personalized Medicine

Dr. Jorge Cortes provides examples of how personalized or precision medicine has positively impacted the approach to cancer care, citing the benefits of FLT3 inhibitors, IDH inhibitors, and MEK inhibitors, and other targeted treatments.

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