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Taiwan to offer genetic testing for treatment of 6 cancers
03/05/2021 09:58 PM
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Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Taiwan s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has announced that it plans to launch a pilot program to offer genetic tests for the targeted treatment of six types of cancer, with the aim of helping the pharmaceutical industry develop medicine catered to individuals genes and lifestyle, and boosting patients chances of survival.
More than 1,000 patients will be enrolled in the program by the second half of this year, according to the MOHW.
The program, jointly developed by the MOHW, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) and Roche Diagnostics Taiwan, will allow patients at a network of designated hospitals to have samples of their cancer analyzed for a range of possible mutations.
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