Patient Education — Learn the Foundations

Your health information, collected through the ORIEN® Total Cancer Care® (TCC®) research study, contributes to advancing cancer research. The articles below give you an overview of ORIEN®'s cancer research approach and offer important knowledge for pushing precision oncology forward.

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Your health information is valuable. Here’s how it helps in research.

Your health information helps improve cancer treatment. The medicines that doctors use to treat cancer have changed a lot just…

Precision medicine is a cancer treatment tailored to the unique features of your cancer.

No two people with cancer are exactly alike. Neither are their cancer tumors. In the past, doctors believed that cancers…

Cancer is caused by a series of changes to a cell’s genes.

The cells in your body contain tens of thousands of genes. Genes carry the information that control your features, like…