What does precision oncology entail?

February 25, 2021

A new partnership between public and private sector institutions aims to advance the adoption of personalised healthcare in Singapore; part of this includes precision oncology for personalised cancer care.

Find out more information about this partnership

Listen to Associate Professor David Tan, Senior Consultant from the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore speaking with Health Matters with Daniel Martin on CNA938. on what it takes to set up personalized healthcare and how a clinico-genomic database (CGDB) is going to impact cancer care in the future.

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