World Cancer Day 2023: With Tumour profiling for customised therapy

Medicine & Science The cancer therapy of the future is increasingly customised in the sense of precision medicine. The basis for this is comprehensive "profiling" of each individual tumour, which extensively analyses the genetic make-up of the individual tumour at molecular level. This "comprehensive cancer profiling" is already being used at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna (CCC) of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital for all types of cancer and permits the identification of changes in a tumour that argue for or against the use of a particular therapy. Three concrete examples show how CCC science can prolong and improve life. World Cancer Day is on 4 February 2023. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) makes it possible to examine many genes simultaneously, but also different changes, so-called mutations, in a tumour. This is also referred to as "comprehensive cancer profiling".