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Riccardo Soffietti, EAN 2018 – Advances in personalised therapies for brain tumours (Part 2)

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Published Online: Jun 22nd 2018

Riccardo Soffietti (EAN Programme Committee; Chairman, Department of Neuro-Oncology, University and City of Health and Science Hospital, Turini, Italy) talks to us about the topic of the symposium he participated in entitled: Advances in molecular characterisation and personalised therapies in brain tumours. Part 2 of 2.

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1. What are the most promising agents targeting molecular pathways in brain metastases? (0:12)
2. What are the current limitations of the personalised medicine approach and how may these be overcome? (1:45)

View Part 1 here.

Speaker disclosure: Riccardo Soffietti has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2018.

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