US launches largest trial of precision medicine in cancer

June 02, 2015 02:23

The United States launched the largest clinical trial of its kind today aimed at studying targeted therapies for cancer based on the genetic traits of tumors, a field known as precision medicine.

The US National Cancer Institute plans to enroll about 1,000 patients beginning in July, experts said at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.

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