Patient Education

Chemotherapy transformed osteosarcoma from a disease that was often fatal after surgery alone into one that can frequently be cured when localized. But the history of MAP chemotherapy also raises an important question: does every patient benefit from every drug in the regimen?

A targeted cancer drug may match a tumor mutation but still fail to work. Learn why actionable mutations don’t guarantee response and how functional profiling may help identify treatments more likely to work for your cancer.