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The role of surgeons in building a personalized medicine program
Author(s) -
Boland Genevieve M.,
MericBernstam Funda
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.23684
Subject(s) - medicine , personalized medicine , multidisciplinary team , multidisciplinary approach , profiling (computer programming) , patient care , medical education , medical physics , nursing , bioinformatics , computer science , social science , sociology , biology , operating system
Changes in technology, with decreases in the cost of molecular profiling, has expanded the interest in creating institution‐wide personalized medicine platforms to allow selective assessment of a given patient's tumor in real time, with the ability to utilize that information for patient‐care decisions. In order for this approach to function adequately, a multidisciplinary team must be created in an environment with dedicated support at an institutional level. J. Surg. Oncol. 2015 111:3–8 . © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.