Vall d’Hebron Hospital treats 1,400 cancer patients based on their genetic alterations

Some of these people, who had no chance, have come to heal

Barcelona. (EP) .- The Research Unit Molecular Cancer Therapy – The Box ( UITM ) of the Hospital Vall d’ Hebron in Barcelona attended since it opened in 2010 to 1,400 patients who had not responded well to traditional therapies and treatment applied to them ” customized ” according to the genetic alterations of the tumor.
At a press conference Monday , the CEO of La Caixa Foundation , James turned and VHIO Director and Head of Oncology , Josep Tabernero , have stock of UTIM , which was first conceived in 2007 but that was created in 2010 .

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  • 23rd of December 2014
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