CANCER A–Z E-LEARNING SERIES
Understanding Precision Medicine in Cancer Care
Learn how precision medicine is changing the way we understand cancer.
This educational series helps patients and caregivers understand precision medicine, liquid biopsy, circulating tumor cells (CTCs), molecular testing, and personalized cancer care — explained in a simple and easy-to-understand way.
FREE
Price
13
Video Classes
80 min
Total Learning Time
Learn from leading oncologists and precision medicine experts
Content reviewed by medical professionals
Understand Why Treatments May Stop Working
Learn why cancer can change, become resistant and respond differently from one patient to another.
Explore How Precision Medicine May Guide Treatment Options
Learn how precision medicine uses individual cancer information to help guide more personalized treatment options.
Understand
Precision Testing
for Cancer
Discover how liquid biopsy, CTCs and ctDNA can provide additional biological insight into cancer.
Course Overview
What You Will Learn
Cancer is not a static disease.
It can change over time, behave differently from one patient to another, and respond differently to treatment.
This course explains the principles of precision medicine and how deeper biological information may help doctors and patients make more informed decisions.
Duration
Approximately 70–80 minutes
Format
Short, easy-to-follow video classes
Modules
3 Modules · 13 Classes
Audience
Cancer patients & caregivers
Languages
English
Access
Learn anytime, at your own pace
Course Content
Explore our comprehensive curriculum designed to empower patients and caregivers with the knowledge to better understand their cancer, explore precision medicine, and make more informed treatment decisions.
1
Why Precision Medicine Matters for Every Cancer Patient & Caregiver
Every cancer is different. Precision medicine helps replace trial and error with deeper insight, better-matched decisions, and greater confidence for patients and caregivers.
3 Classes · ~20 minutes
MODULE Details
Class 1.1 – Have you ever felt helpless after hearing that a treatment stopped working?
When a treatment stops working, it’s not your fault. Cancer evolves, and resistant cells can emerge. Precision medicine looks deeper into your cancer’s unique biology to find a more personalized approach—right for you, right now.
Class 1.2 – Why treatments stop working
Treatments stop working because cancer dynamically evolves and develops drug resistance, meaning a standard, one-size-fits-all approach can no longer match the tumor’s changing biology.
Common questions patients and caregivers ask
Faced with treatment failure, patients and caregivers often ask ‘what do we do next’—a critical question that pivots care from blind trial-and-error to precision-guided strategic choices.
Class 1.4 – How Better Information Guides Treatment
Better biological data shifts treatment from reactive to proactive, enabling early strategy adjustments and empowering patients.
Class 2.1 – What precision medicine means
Precision medicine means looking at your cancer’s unique biology—not just its cancer type—to make more informed, personalized treatment decisions.
Class 2.2 – How precision medicine improves treatment outcomes
Precision medicine helps match treatment to your cancer’s biology—reducing guesswork, identifying resistance earlier, and aiming for better outcomes with fewer unnecessary side effects.
Class 3 – Looking beyond scan and symptoms
Scans show what cancer looks like. Symptoms show how you feel. Precision medicine looks deeper—at how cancer is behaving at the cellular and molecular level.
2
How Liquid Biopsy Helps Guide You to the Suitable Treatments
Liquid biopsy provides real-time insight into cancer behavior, helping doctors make more informed and better-matched treatment decisions.
4 Classes · 25~30minutes
MODULE Details
Class 1 – What Is Liquid Biopsy, Who Should Take It, and When
Liquid biopsy uses a simple blood sample to provide deeper insight into cancer behavior—and may be useful before, during, or after treatment.
Class 2 – What Is a CTC Test and How to Choose a Good One
CTC testing examines living cancer cells in the blood to understand how cancer behaves and may respond. A good test depends on viable cells, accurate analysis, clinical validation, and strong laboratory standards.
Class 3 – ctDNA vs CTC Testing: What’s the Difference?
Class 4 – What You Will See in a CTC Test Report & How It Guides Treatment
A CTC report shows what the cancer cells are doing—and may reveal resistance and potential treatment response, helping doctors make more informed treatment decisions.
3
Why Precision Medicine Matters for Every Cancer Patient & Caregiver
Every cancer is different. Precision medicine uses deeper insight into your cancer to reduce trial and error and support more informed, personalized decisions.
2 Classes · ~20 minutes
MODULE Details
Class 1 – Introducing Personalized Therapy
Personalized therapy uses insights from your cancer to guide more tailored treatment decisions—based on how it grows, responds, and changes over time.
Class 2 – Turning Knowledge into Action
Knowledge becomes action when you understand your cancer, discuss the results with your doctor, and use better information to guide the next step.
Take the Next Step
Understanding your cancer is empowering.
Knowledge becomes powerful when it turns into conversation.
Bring what you learn from this course into your next discussion with your doctor.
You might consider asking:
Is precision testing suitable for my condition?
Are blood-based monitoring options available for me?
How can we better understand my cancer’s behavior?