According to ABC World News, a recent study shows how personalized medicine is being used to more effectively treat cancer.

“We classify cancers according to where they start, but each cancer is probably many types of cancer. The bigger picture is what are the genetic abnormalities that make that cancer grow. Traditional treatments for cancer, such as chemotherapy, are one size fits all. All lung cancer patients might receive the same type of chemotherapy,” says Dr. Gerald Falchook, assistant professor in the department of investigational cancer therapeutics at MD Anderson. While this approach can be effective, it ravages the patients body by attacking all of a patients cells in hopes of killing the cancer.”

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