Societal challenges of precision medicine: Bringing order to chaos

Publication date: October 2017
Source:European Journal of Cancer, Volume 84
Author(s): Roberto Salgado, Helen Moore, John W.M. Martens, Tracy Lively, Shakun Malik, Ultan McDermott, Stefan Michiels, Jeffrey A. Moscow, Sabine Tejpar, Tawnya McKee, Denis Lacombe
The increasing number of drugs targeting specific proteins implicated in tumourigenesis and the commercial promotion of relatively affordable genome-wide analyses has led to an increasing expectation among patients with cancer that they can now receive effective personalised treatment based on the often complex genomic signature of their tumour. For such approaches to work in routine practice, the development of correspondingly complex biomarker assays through an appropriate and rigorous regulatory framework will be required. It is becoming increasingly evident that a re-engineering of clinical research is necessary so that regulatory considerations and procedures facilitate the efficient translation of these required biomarker assays from the discovery setting through to clinical application. This article discusses the practical requirements and challenges of developing such new precision medicine strategies, based on leveraging complex genomic profiles, as discussed at the Innovation and Biomarkers in Cancer Drug Development meeting (8th–9th September 2016, Brussels, Belgium).



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