A GP guide to genomics in cancer treatment
The rapid development of genomics technologies and their introduction into the clinical setting has resulted in an explosion of knowledge
Cancer treatment has undergone transformational change over the past 30 years.
When the author was a young doctor in the 1980s, the approach to treatment was essentially the same for most patients with each type of cancer.
Everybody with bowel cancer was treated the same way, and everybody with lung cancer the same way.
For certain cancer types, there were no good or effective treatment options, such as malignancies occurring in populations that were too small to develop the necessary clinical evidence or where the origins of the cancer were not clear.
