Book Review—Diagnostic pathology: molecular oncology, 1st edition

Excerpt

Personalized medicine, or precision medicine, is becoming a major challenge for scientists and physicians, and a great matter of hope for patients. The genetic and molecular bases of such an approach are rapidly changing and offering a new way of establishing diagnoses and designing treatments. This novel era has already started with a robust impact, particularly in clinical oncology. Personalized therapy for patients whose tumors have been characterized by pathologists by molecular tools is currently practiced for hematological tumors, breast, lung, skin, and many other cancers. Thus, molecular oncologic pathology may be defined as one of the most dynamic areas of medicine. …