Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Diagnosed with Breast Cancer should your treatment be Tamoxifen or Chemotherapy ? A Geonomics test will answer this question



Diagnosed with Breast Cancer should your treatment be Tamoxifen or Chemotherapy ? A Geonomics test will answer this question

Hybrid Medical Analytics asked genetics or geonomics. Genetics is the study of how inherited Cancer traits that are passed from one generation to the next through your genes. New genetics traits appear by way of genetic changes. These traits may be characteristics like eye or hair color.

A predisposition to certain types of diseases can be passed through your genes, such as the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes which normally help control cell growth.

A person who inherits an altered version of the BRCA1 and-or BRCA2 gene(s) has a higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. If someone in your Family has Breast Cancer you can get a genetic tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2.

When a Breast Cancer Patient is Diagnosed as a high-risk Breast Cancer patient they should get a genomic test. A genomic test looks at groups of genes and how active they are. This activity can influence how a cancer is likely to grow and respond to treatment.

Hybrid Medical Analytics uses our Electronic Science Notebooks to identify 21 genes in a patient’s breast tumor to understand how these genes interact and influence the tumor’s behavior, contribute to the development of a cancer cell and its progression from a localized cancer to one that grows uncontrolled and metastasizes.

Oncologist can you this information to better understand whether breast cancer patients are likely to benefit from treatments such as tamoxifen or certain chemotherapy regimens, or whether those patients are likely to experience a recurrence of their cancer.

Hybrid Medical Analytics Area of Research

* Breast cancer
* Endocrine system cancer
* Gastrointestinal cancer
* Genitourinary cancer
* Gynaecological cancer
* Haematological cancer
* Head and neck cancer
* Neurooncology
* Paediatric oncology
* Thoracic oncology
* Sarcoma
* Skin cancer
* Epidemiology, cancer prevention, and cancer control
* Supportive care
* Imaging
* Health-care systems

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