A New DNA Treatment As The Future Of Cancer Treatment

                A revolutionary new DNA treatment technique makes you six times more likely to beat cancer. The new technique involves having a simple £200(Rs 19,386) DNA test of your tumour first. This them tells doctors precisely which drugs or therapies are most suited to you, rather than relying on the standard treatment.

                Precision medicine studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting are expected to show unprecedented results. One study of 13,000 patients taking part in early clinical trials of drugs found those undergoing genetic testing of their tumours before any treatment – so that they could then be given targeted therapies instead of standard drugs were six times more likely to see their tumours shrink or disappear altogether. It is the first analysis of precision medicine treatments.

                It is a very different way to treatment. It’s the most exciting thing since chemotherapy. It was about using reliable technology to better treat patients and giving them the most appropriate choice. Precision medicine was about finding the right key for the lock, finding out what it is that is driving the tumour, what make it tick. At the moment, it is informed guesswork, so that treatment often doesn’t work for large numbers of patients. I believe the potential of precision medicine is huge.