Treating Cancer on a Personal Level: Innovative Cancer Treatment at Rabin Medical Center's Samueli Institute for Innovation & Research Cancer treatment, all around the world, appears more or less in the same format: biopsy, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery. At times "alternative medicine" is involved, but ultimately medical doctors and researchers have been treating cancer with the same procedures for decades. At Rabin Medical Center's Samueli Institute for Cancer Research and Innovation, there has been a truly game-changing break from this approach. Doctors at the Institute are looking not to generic treatment, but to highly personalized treatment. This means using each patient's unique factors: genes, immune system, family history - even their physiology, age and religious beliefs - to help design the best possible treatment for them. Avner Paz-Zuk, CEO, Samueli Institute at Rabin Medical Center, said, "The mission of the Samueli Institute is to lead scientific research and develop innovative courses of action and treatments, with the goal of creating a substantial impact in the world of cancer medicine." (fb)

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