COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cancer research goes beyond medicine at The Ohio State University's James Cancer Hospital.

Doctors conduct genetic testing at Ohio State, unraveling the genetic code of a specific cancer.

"The idea is can we identify what these cancers are, what's wrong with these cancers, and what's the right therapy for them?" said Dr. Sameek Roychowdhury.

Roychowdhury leads the precision cancer medicine program at the James. The focus of the program is just that precision.

Doctors have been analyzing tumors for years, but now it's so specific down to the genetic mutation.

"So if we saw 100 patients with breast cancer, we could literally find 100 different types of breast cancer," Roychowdhury said.

Getting to the genetic heart of the cancer, knowing what drives it and makes it grow and spread, is the key to finding the cancer, stopping it, and saving lives.

"It's going to be much more focusedon the exact gene that's disruptive," Roychowdhury said.

For example, Jared Gordon was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer at age 51.

The father of three was told that he had six months to live.

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