Personalized medicine: patient-predictive panel power

Cancer Cell. 2012 Apr 17;21(4):455-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.03.030.

Abstract

Two recent papers published in Nature demonstrate the power of systematic high-throughput pharmacologic profiling of very large, diverse, molecularly-characterized human cancer cell line panels to reveal linkages between genetic profile and targeted-drug sensitivity. Known oncogene addictions are confirmed while surprising complexities and biomarker relationships with clinical potential are revealed.