Study points toward personalised treatment for breast cancer

Research indicates that cancers are highly individual and would therefore respond best to individualised treatments

Personalised treatment for breast cancer patients could become commonplace, as scientists reveal that they have compiled the most detailed picture yet of which genetic mutations are involved in the disease.

Published in the journals Nature and Nature Communications, the research involved the analysis of the genomes of cancerous tissue from 560 breast cancer patients, four of whom were men.