How Will Individualized Care Influence the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer?

How Will Individualized Care Influence the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer? (1:06)

Personalized approaches to treating ovarian cancer may help doctors target cancers better, says Nimesh Nagarsheth, MD, a gynecolgic oncologist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. In this video, he talks about the future of ovarian cancer treatment.

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I see, eventually, in the coming years, a system for ovarian cancer where we're able to, in terms of treatment, individualize the care based on the histology and the biology of the tumor because not every tumor is the same. They have different aggressiveness, different types of backgrounds of the tumor, different genetic make up, and different protein abnormalities, for example.

If we can isolate and pinpoint, we will be able to better target which treatments are better for which types of cancers, and that way becomes a individual individualized care program because we're taking the characteristics of the particular tumor, and we're matching it with the treatment that is known to work against those particular characteristics.

So not every ovarian cancer might get the same chemotherapy in the future as it's more commonly done at this point.