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    30.–32. For taking medicine to new frontiers

    Feb 20, 2019 2 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPH BY THE VOORHES

    FOUNDATION MEDICINE

    For matching cancer patients to breakthrough treatments

    The promise of precision medicine is becoming a reality in cancer treatment, where patients now routinely have tumors genomically tested before deciding on how to respond. Just over a year ago, Foundation Medicine received FDA approval for FoundationOne CDx, a test that analyzes tissue samples for alterations across 324 genes known to drive cancer, helping oncologists steer

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