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Groundbreaking treatment approach shows promise in hard-to-treat cancers - EurekAlert


<p>Researchers at Florida International University (FIU) have developed a functional precision medicine approach that targets cancer by combining genetic testing with a new way to test individual drugs on tumor samples. The results of the clinical study were published today in&nbsp;<em>Nature Medicine.</em>This combined approach, developed by Florida International University cancer researcher Diana Azzam, was used successfully for the first time to guide treatment of relapsed pediatric cancer patients.</p>

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