COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cancer research goes beyond medicine at The Ohio State University's James Cancer Hospital. <\/p>\n
Doctors conduct genetic testing at Ohio State, unraveling the genetic code of a specific cancer. <\/p>\n
\"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. <\/p>\n
Roychowdhury leads the precision cancer medicine program at the James. The focus of the program is just that precision. <\/p>\n
Doctors have been analyzing tumors for years, but now it's so specific down to the genetic mutation. <\/p>\n
\"So if we saw 100 patients with breast cancer, we could literally find 100 different types of breast cancer,\" Roychowdhury said. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
\"It's going to be much more focusedon the exact gene that's disruptive,\" Roychowdhury said. <\/p>\n
For example, Jared Gordon was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer at age 51. <\/p>\n
The father of three was told that he had six months to live. <\/p>\n
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