What does Hartwig Medical Foundation do?
10-03-2023
Hartwig Medical Foundation is a unique initiative that makes possible progress in the research of treatment of cancer in the Netherlands. It is the first national DNA data ‘sequencing’ centre, and brings personalized cancer care a step closer.
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Cancer is caused by DNA mutations. There are an increasing number of drugs available that act on specific errors in the DNA of an individual patient’s tumor. A drug that doesn’t fit, like a key in a lock, will not work, while the risk of side effects remains.
Head of Research & Innovation, Dept. of Pathology, Head, Division of Diagnostic Translational Oncology Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, professor of Oncologic Pathology, UMCU