How is Genomic Health changing the way that cancer is treated?
An individual cancer contains many different alterations—it is not the same disease for every patient. As a result, some patients may be more or less likely to develop advanced disease or to respond to certain therapies. Until recently, we have had only limited insight into these differences at a patient’s initial diagnosis, which limited clinicians’ ability to choose a treatment tailored to the individual patient. This is where genomics—the study of complex sets of genes, their expression and their functions—comes in. Genomic Health is developing new genomic testing services to provide clinically-validated, individualized tumor profiles, which may greatly improve the quality of treatment decisions for patients with cancer.
