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Getting Personal With Cancer - The Buzz About Personalized Medicine For Prostate Cancer

Dec 13, 2012

“Personalized medicine! What is that?” Your question is justified. It was also something that Terry Procter from Peterborough, Ontario thought when he was sent a questionnaire for his opinion on the subject. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had his prostate removed in 2007. So, what is personalized medicine and what is the connection to cancer?

Smitha Dutt

I completed my PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY and was involved in cancer research for 10 years before taking a break. Now I am a freelance science writer specializing in cancer research.My doct…

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