Narrated by cancer survivor Sharon Osbourne, "Defeating Cancer: Precision Medicine and Personalized Care" is a one-hour documentary that focuses on cutting-edge biomedical and health research efforts, and the many threads that connect cancer patients to doctors, researchers and innovators across the country and around the world.
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Genomics are the basis for the new era of precision medicine. "Defeating Cancer: Precision Medicine and Personalized Care" explores how cancer treatment has advanced over the years thanks to research and technology
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An image of a cancer cell and a white blood cell. "Defeating Cancer: Precision Medicine and Personalized Care" explains how a cancer cell’s unique mutation helps doctors tailor a treatment plan geared toward those changes.
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An animated DNA strand helps illustrate cancer patients’ unique genetic profiles that doctors are targeting with personalized treatments in the program.
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