RNA sequence could help doctors to tailor unique prostate cancer treatment programs
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Sequencing RNA, not just DNA, could help doctors predict how prostate cancer tumors will respond to treatment, according to research. Because a tumor's RNA shows the real time changes a treatment is causing, the authors think this could be a useful tool to aid diagnosis and predict which treatment will most benefit individual cancer patients.