作者: Christina Halsey
DOI: 10.1159/000350349
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摘要: Childhood leukaemia is one of the success stories modern medicine. Initially advances were made by using progressively more intensive multi-agent chemotherapy regimens for all children. More recently, it has been appreciated that individual children differ considerably with respect to sensitivity their leukaemic cells and also susceptibility treatment-related toxicity. This led a move towards personalised treatment. The mainstay this approach use minimal residual disease measurement which assesses each patient's response initial therapy enables treatment modifications be in real time. Personalised approaches extend identifying at risk drug toxicity pharmacogenomics molecular techniques identify mutations can specifically targeted new drugs. article reviews strategies current speculates on how interpreting explosion genetic information becoming available may improve future.