“Each patient has his own disease and each tumor is different. Today we have the tools to be extremely precise in defining the path and it is our duty to guarantee this to all patients, thanks to personalized medicine. Precision medicine is now a necessity in our clinics, nothing is relegated to research laboratories or universities alone. We need precision medicine because, when we propose a treatment to a patient with breast cancer or to a group of patients, we will have extremely different responses from the same treatment. And therefore our need is to find the right treatment, at the right time and for the right patient.” The head of the Breast Unit of the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome, Andrea Botticelli, told Adnkronos Salute today in Rome on the occasion of the presentation of the national awareness campaign ‘They are not all the same. Breast cancer and life paths’, a social initiative promoted by MSD Italia.
“In our clinics, every day – explains the oncologist – we choose the best treatment based on the characteristics of the patient, on the characteristics of the drug, without forgetting that each patient metabolizes the drug differently and that the drugs interact with each other. For this reason we personalize the treatment on the characteristics of the tumor, on the molecular profile and also on the immunological profile, because we have important opportunities in the early phase as a neoadjuvant setting in triple negative disease, in which we must know what the patient’s profile is to achieve the best treatment, the better targets with less toxicity”.
All this “can only be guaranteed with a path organized in highly specialized centres. This is where the breast care center comes into play, which in such a complicated moment for women represents a fundamental place – underlines Botticelli – because it will follow her throughout the entire path of care. And the ‘They are not all the same’ campaign, referring to tumors, certainly represents an important moment that highlights the centrality of diversity.”
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