Apostolia M. Tsimberidou, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains the next steps for personalized cancer care. She believes it involves continuing to test patients for molecular aberrations and selecting the correct patients for early drug development.

Tsimberidou states there is still a need to understand the emergence of resistance to targeted therapies and the complexities of targeting more than one aberration or using the combination of multiple targeted therapies. She mentions MD Anderson Cancer Center's goal is for personalized treatments to be fully reimbursed and for it to become the standard of care in the future.

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Dr. Apostolia Tsimberidou from MD Anderson Cancer Center on the Next Steps for Personalized Care

Dr. Tsimberidou on the Next Steps for Personalized Care

Lead author Apostolia M. Tsimberidou, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, believes that personalized medicine is the future of cancer care and focused on it in a phase I clinical trial conducted at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The study examined cancer molecular analysis and used matched targeted therapy unique to the aberrations found in the analysis as a way to improve the outcomes of patients. The trial demonstrated that looking at particular genetic abnormalities to select treatment is associated with improved outcomes overall.

Dr. Apostolia M. Tsimberidou from MD Anderson Cancer Center on the Personalized Medicine Study Results

Dr. Tsimberidou on the Personalized Medicine Results

Lead author Apostolia M. Tsimberidou, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how the personalized medicine program phase I trial looking at tumor molecular analysis and the use of targeted matched therapy improves the outcomes of affected patients, and cancer care in general.

Apostolia M. Tsimberidou, MD, PhD, from MD Anderson Cancer Center discusses improving cancer care.

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