The National Cancer Institute defines precision medicine in cancer as a strategy that “uses specific information about a person’s tumor to help make a diagnosis, plan treatment, find out how well treatment is working, or make a prognosis.”
Andrew Smith was named chair of St. Jude’s Diagnostic Imaging Department. He succeeds Beth McCarville, who was interim chair of the department since the death of Zoltan Patay, who held the position from 2017 to 2022.
