Since the late 1800s, the field of immuno-oncology has been exploring the relationship between the immune system and the development, progression, and treatment of cancer. With over a century's worth of discoveries as the guide, the past decade has seen an explosion in the translation of this research into new treatment modalities, often with unprecedented success. Advancements in genomic technologies, like next-generation sequencing (NGS), are helping advance our understanding of interactions between the immune system and cancer, guiding therapeutic development.
Advances in genomic sequencing and data analysis promise to revolutionize healthcare through precision medicine. Identifying individual variations in genes and correlating them to known outcomes and phenotypes allows for disease susceptibility, prediction of response to medications, preventive care, and therapeutic treatment to be more precisely tailored to the individual than ever before. Thanks to technological advances and efficiencies of scale, scientists and clinicians have an increasingly wide array of tools ...
