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The biomedical paradigm of personalised precision medicine - identification of specific molecular targets for treatment of an individual patient - offers great potential for treatment of many diseases including cancer. This article provides a critical analysis of the promise, the hype, and the pitfalls attending this approach. In particular, we focus on “molecularly unstratified” patients - those who, for various reasons, are not eligible for a targeted therapy. For these patients, hope-laden...
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- 10.1159/000480422
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- Publisher:
- Karger Publishers Open Access Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Biomedicine Hub Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- S1
- Pages:
- 146-153
- Chapter number:
- 480422
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-24
- DOI:
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2296-6870
- Pubs id:
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pubs:709366
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uri:27fd45e0-04fe-46bd-a622-6f1b031b6596
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uuid:27fd45e0-04fe-46bd-a622-6f1b031b6596
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- pubs:709366
- Paper number:
- S1
- Copyright holder:
- Hordern et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by S. Karger AG, Basel. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND). Usage and distribution for commercial purposes as well as any distribution of modified material requires written permission.
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The “molecularly unstratified” patient: a focus for moral, psycho-social and societal research
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