Precision Medicine and Non-Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases: Fiction or Reality?
Author(s) -
Effie Liakopoulou,
Alexander Knuth
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000442485
Subject(s) - biobank , colorectal cancer , medicine , precision medicine , standardization , clinical trial , cancer , variety (cybernetics) , medical physics , intensive care medicine , computer science , bioinformatics , pathology , biology , artificial intelligence , operating system
Non-colorectal liver metastases (nCRLM) constitute a variety of heterogeneous diseases and a considerable therapeutic challenge. Management is based on the primary tumor and the clinical course. In the era of precision medicine (PM) we know that cancer is heterogeneous within the tumor and across different sites.
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