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Making an IMPACT: Donation keeps innovative trials going

The effort is known as the Institutional Multidisciplinary Paradigm to Accelerate Collaboration and Translation (IMPACT). The aim — as illustrated in the acronym — is to enhance the way cancer discoveries are translated from the laboratory bench to patient bedside and back again. …

Personalizing cancer treatments for youngest patients

Precision medicine constitutes a different method of identifying best treatment options for patients. Instead of prescribing therapy based solely on the organ where the cancer originated, clinicians utilize genomic analysis for a more comprehensive approach. Through a rapid gene sequencing test, the tiniest details of a tumor biopsy are uncovered, sometimes revealing one or more mutations in the patient’s genes. It is the mutations themselves that can be targeted with new or existing drugs. …