Cancer Genetics and Genomics for Personalized Medicine

“Likely as the recent Cancer Moonshot Initiative highlights, this book well describes the importance of genetics/genomics-based personalized therapies to improve cancer treatments. This field is growing rapidly, and it is certain that many scientists should obtain professional knowledge of ‘cancer precision medicine’ to cure more cancer patients.”

~Prof. Yusuke Nakamura, University of Chicago, USA

“At a time when an explosive increase in data has combined with rapidly evolving treatment paradigms, it has become particularly challenging for modern clinicians and medical researchers alike to put these advances in knowledge and practice into a proper context. Excitement over the availability of a patient’s entire genome, the ability to detect the tumor cells and DNA circulating in a cancer victim’s bloodstream, and the possibility of identifying a specific genetic mutation that may have sensitized an otherwise untreatable cancer to a recently developed drug often gives way to an overwhelming sense of overload and confusion. It is in light of this predicament that this new volume edited by Dr. Il-Jin Kim provides a much-needed organization and harmonic understanding to the cacophony of information regarding the elusive realm of precision medicine. Covering an exhaustive array of topics ranging from the basic science of tumor modeling to the biology of tumor microenvironments to the horizon of cancer immunotherapy and advances for specific cancer types, this clearly written and very readable compilation provides a solid foundation for comprehending the rapidly advancing dawn of a truly new, personalized, precision approach to the treatment and, hopefully, the cure of cancer.”

~Prof. Michael J. Mann, University of California, San Francisco

“This is a comprehensive professional book for cancer researchers in the era of precision medicine, especially for clinicians, to obtain a deeper knowledge of the cancer genome."

~Prof. Tae-You Kim, Seoul National University Cancer Hospital, Korea