How One Doctor Used Precision Medicine to Treat Uterine Cancer
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In January 2012, Ronda Kotelchuck was diagnosed with uterine serous carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer. She turned to 麻豆传媒高清版 and NewYork-Presbyterian for treatment, where she met Dr. Kevin Holcomb, the Director of Gynecologic Oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
A hysterectomy and chemotherapy initially kept cancer at bay, but despite multiple rounds of treatment, the disease kept returning and eventually spread to other areas of her body
Dr. Holcomb suggested a new approach: DNA sequencing the cancer cells so they could more effectively target the tumor's cancer-causing genes.