Using molecular techniques, researchers improved diagnosis and treatment of cancer

The ABC Medical Center, located in Mexico City, implemented various molecular diagnostic methods that can detect the genetic alterations in several types of cancer, so they can select a personalized therapy for each patient and direct it against the mutated genes that cause disease.

For this the Laboratory of Molecular Pathology was created, thanks to a cancer patient who decided to make a donation to the hospital to acquire the necessary equipment, sensitive to the existing need in Mexico for a place where timely diagnosis of the disease is made.

“While the techniques of molecular biology have been applied to clinical diagnosis for over 20 years, they had just been established in the country. It is estimated that only about five years ago in some of the National Institutes of Health and universities, where it was first used in the field of research, “says Dr. César Lara Torres, head of…