Patients to help with pioneering cancer research
Cancer patients from across Yorkshire are among the first to have pioneering genetic tests under a new landmark initiative to help scientists develop personalised drug treatments to better target tumours.
The move announced today aims to demonstrate how the tests could be used to match patients to treatments by identifying those with cancers with similar hallmarks.
Cancer Research UK’s Leeds Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and six other centres in the UK will ask up to 9,000 patients to take part in the first phase of the programme.
Experts believe the approach – the latest step to developing “personalised medicine” – could transform cancer treatment.