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NHS establishes a network of specialized centres for DNA analysis for "specialized medicine"
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From 1 October, hospitals will analyse and interpret patient DNA.
Precision medicine offers therapies tailored to individual patients.
Tumour DNA will be screened for key mutations.
Can identify best drug to use, or appropriate clinical trials.
Knowing how many mutations a lung tumour has indicates how it will respond.
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Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Professor of Translational Genomic Medicine in The Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine at the University of Manchester.
