Summer is winding down as we go to press with this month’s issue, and while we might well reflect a little sadly on its departure, we can also look forward to the fall season with its promise of renewal and adventure. As I settled back in to my familiar work routine after the Labor Day weekend, I was reminded of how, despite the remarkable clinical advances in oncology, we are still caregivers, involved in our patients’ everyday lives and that we can never forget our humanity. The advent of high-tech personalized medicine or precision oncology, as I prefer to call it, has given oncologists a remarkable cache of treatment options for their patients and the hope that more – and better – therapies are to come. Next-generation diagnostics are helping us identify the cellular targets we need to take aim at to kill the tumor and globally, research is yielding more and more therapeutics to subdue those targets and hence the tumor.
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