Birkeland Andrew C, Brenner J Chad
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI; Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
Med Res Arch. 2015;3(3). doi: 10.18103/mra.v0i3.77.
Personalized medicine, in which individual tumor genetics drive the selection of targeted therapies and treatment plans for each patient, has recently emerged as the next generation of cancer therapy. Unfortunately, personalized medicine trials have had limited success in tumors that have complex combinations of disruptive genomic events, which drive differential responses to targeted therapies. Here, we will use head and neck squamous cell carcinoma as a model for genetically complex disease and discuss novel approaches to enhance personalized medicine trials for these complicated cases.
个性化医疗,即根据个体肿瘤遗传学为每位患者选择靶向治疗和治疗方案,最近已成为新一代癌症治疗方法。不幸的是,在具有破坏性基因组事件复杂组合的肿瘤中,个性化医疗试验取得的成功有限,这些基因组事件导致对靶向治疗产生不同反应。在此,我们将以头颈部鳞状细胞癌作为遗传复杂疾病的模型,并讨论针对这些复杂病例加强个性化医疗试验的新方法。