The goal of precision cancer prevention is to keep people in our community and beyond from ever becoming patients in the first place.
Each of us has unique genetics, environmental exposures, and values that contribute to our cancer risk. Pediatric hematologist oncologist Bonnie Lau, MD, PhD, is looking at whole genomic sequences to potentially predict which children are predisposed to getting cancer, so that they can get the proper care sooner than later. “Sometimes it’s just one nucleotide in the whole DNA sequence, is enough of a mutation to make the disease happen. When we talk about ‘precision prevention’ it really is that precise.”