[New developments in the classification of malign tumors]

C Wittekind1

  • 1Institut für Pathologie des Universitätsklinikums Leipzig. christian.wittekind@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Insights

Personalized medicine offers exciting diagnostic and therapeutic potential. This review explores how tumor classifications, particularly the TNM classification, enable individualized cancer therapy today and in the future.

Area of Science:

  • Oncology
  • Medical Diagnostics
  • Therapeutics

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