Overview
- Describes new and emerging technologies that are impacting on precision medicine in cancer therapy
- Documents advances in precision medicine in some of the most common cancer types
- Written by renowned experts, including translational physicians with first-hand experience in precision patient care
Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research (CTAR, volume 178)
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About this book
Precision medicine aims to deliver personalized healthcare tailored to a patient’s genetics, lifestyle and environment, and cancer therapy is one of the areas in which it has flourished in recent years. Documenting the latest advances, this book is of interest to physicians and clinical fellows in the front line of the war on cancer, as well as to basic scientists working in the fields of cancer biology, drug development, biomarker discovery, and biomedical engineering. The contributing authors include translational physicians withfirst-hand experience in precision patient care.
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Keywords
- Genomics enabled precision medicine
- Proteomics enabled precision medicine
- Metabolomics enabled precision medicine
- Imaging precision medicine
- Single cess sequencing in precsion medicine
- Microbiome in precision medicine
- Perspectives on precision medicine
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biomarker Discovery
- Emerging Technologies
- New tools in precision medicine
- Drug development
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Individual Types of Cancer Precision Medicine
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Future Precision Medicine
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Haiyong Han is a tumor biologist with a major interest in targeted drug discovery. He has more than 20 years of experience in preclinical drug development for cancers, particularly pancreatic cancer. His major areas of expertise include the identification and validation of drug targets and biomarkers, lead identification and optimization, and preclinical evaluation and development. Dr. Han has published more than 70 peer reviewed articles and was an inventor on 15 patents/patent applications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy
Editors: Daniel D. Von Hoff, Haiyong Han
Series Title: Cancer Treatment and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16391-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16390-7Published: 27 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16393-8Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16391-4Published: 17 June 2019
Series ISSN: 0927-3042
Series E-ISSN: 2509-8497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 283
Topics: Oncology, Cancer Research
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals, Pharma