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Precision medicine for childhood cancer offers personalized treatment which is tailored towards
the genetic characteristics of the children diagnosed with cancer (Rajen et al. n.p). This article by
University of Montreal highlights that when diagnosing and treating of pediatric cancers,
genomic profiling helps in the proposal of treatment actions that suit the different alterations of
the children with cancer. This article which recognizes the role of TRICEPS team in Quebec in
the past five years argues that the team has managed to demonstrate the feasibility of setting up a
research program in pediatric oncology in precision medicine so as to reduce the rates of
morbidity of childhood cancer. Since the aim of precision medicine is to bring together different
teams and experts in pediatric care of cancer, it is expected that they may be able to quickly
intervene before the children dies. According to Collins and Varmus (n.p), the aim of the
precision medicine is to treat children with the drugs that target specific genetic mutations in
their tumors regardless of where the tumors are found.
This article argues that up to date, the study of the use of precision medicine for pediatric care
has enrolled 84 patients. Of the people include are children who have hematological, solid and
brain tumors. The study found out that genomic anomalies allows for better management of
patients in 87% of patients. This was achieved through better follow-up of the residual diseases,
reclassification of the disease or through the application of the targeted therapy.
The study design of this article is ideas and opinions as it involves the intention to treat analysis.
The study offers insight on a cohort study which had been previously conducted by analyzing the
randomized control trials which compared the patients in different groups (Song and Chung n.p).
The study is bias because the results of the study are one-sided and do not give further
information like the weaknesses of the precision medicine for childhood cancer.

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