Nearly 50 years after the "war on cancer" was declared in the United States, precision medicine presages an era of increased understanding of the molecular basis of cancer and of the ability to design treatments tailored to a patient's own genetic profile, a panel of experts said Tuesday at a briefing sponsored by Columbia University. The event, a media conversation on the future of cancer, was held to mark the upcoming PBS broadcast of "Ken Burns Presents Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies," based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Columbia oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., DPhil.
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