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Personalized medicine reaches childhood cancer

Vall d'Hebron sequences the genome of pediatric tumors with poor prognosis to find new therapeutic targets and apply targeted treatment

Itzal was five years old when he was diagnosed with bladder rhabdomyosarcoma, a very aggressive tumor that required very powerful chemotherapy and mutilating surgery. The little girl started the treatment and endured, for a month, the aftermath of those pills that forced her to take: she vomited, her hair fell and her defenses were so low she could barely approach her little sister, because of the risk that I passed on some pathogen. One month he was with this chemotherapy until at the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona, ​​reference center in Spain for sarcomas, they sequenced the genome of his tumor and discovered that, in reality, that mass in the bladder was an inflammatory myofibroblastic cancer, a tumor that is locally aggressive but does not metastasize. The analysis revealed that in his genetic instruction book there was a failure that made the tumor sensitive to a treatment that was much less aggressive than the chemo he had received. In a few months, the girl responded to that drug and the intervention to remove the tumor was minimally invasive and without sequelae. The genetic analysis of his tumor gave a twist to his prognosis and found something extra widespread in adult oncology: precision personalized medicine saves lives.


COMENTARI DEL TEXT:I think it's really good that you get better at cancer, which is a very common disease, and it's getting easier to get out of it thanks to advances in medicine, I hope it keeps improving and progressing so that every time this and any disease, not may cause death,It is also interesting that in Spain are the best cures for cancer I like that we are desenvolupados in this area.

Ámbito científico (cáncer)
Fuente: https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/13/ciencia/1550076857_384384.html