AGES Focus Meeting 2016 Circulation Information (3446)
Since the discovery of the circulation by William Harvey we have moved through the age of leeches to robots. During this time cancer surgery has developed to become more radical, and we are currently seeing a swing back to less radical surgery for some tumour sites. We now recognise that it is not just the organ or histological subtype of a tumour that affects outcome, and information provided by the blood allows us to personalise medicine to tailor surgery and systemic treatments accordingly, and in some cases could be used to predict patient survival.
