Molecular Profiling - Challenges and Perspectives

Abstract

Molecular profiling is today’s answer to the eternal unmet need of personalising anticancer therapy. We have never reached such a level of rationality before, based on new technologies, knowledge of systems biology and insights into patho-mechanisms. Whereas we actually focus mainly on mutations of a limited number of cancer genes, we will also have to integrate epigenetic, transcriptional and post-transcriptional changes into our future therapeutic considerations. Overall, we have reached an advanced level of stratified medicine, but are still on the way of targeting the holy grail of real personalisation.