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A New Era of Personalized Cancer Treatment
Clip: 9/2/2026 | 1m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
How immunotherapy and targeted treatments are transforming pediatric cancer care.
Dr. Brinda Mehta explains how immunotherapy harnesses the body’s immune system to attack cancer. Through genetic testing and next-generation sequencing, doctors can also identify mutations and tailor treatment more precisely to each patient, providing new options and greater hope for children facing cancer.
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Docs on Call
A New Era of Personalized Cancer Treatment
Clip: 9/2/2026 | 1m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Dr. Brinda Mehta explains how immunotherapy harnesses the body’s immune system to attack cancer. Through genetic testing and next-generation sequencing, doctors can also identify mutations and tailor treatment more precisely to each patient, providing new options and greater hope for children facing cancer.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I think with the science advancing so nicely, immunotherapy is definitely a big thing we're seeing.
We're harnessing, or researchers have come up with really good medications where you harness the body's immune system to attack the cancer.
So that has really changed the landscape and the paradigm of the way to treat cancer, and also targeted treatments.
So you really, when the tumor is taken out, the pathologist and what we call next-gen sequencing, you can really tailor based on if there's a mutation found, then instead of just, like a buffet, just like giving any chemotherapy, we can actually tailor it to that mutation.
And so the child or the patient is getting more cancer-specific chemotherapy.
Those potentials and those options have advanced, and I think that's what makes it more promising for us.
It's like, okay, we have more options.
We can do something.
And so it's a very exciting time for oncologists because we feel like, okay, we can continue to do more.
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