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Is personalized medicine the way of the future?
Would the development of this 'superweapon' to treat cancer be more important than focusing on the prevention of cancer in the first place? Or vice versa?
Could the therapy discuss in this video be potentially used to fight other human diseases i.e. apart from cancer?

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Caner is life threatening disease which needs to be controlled as early as possible. To do so, there has been several drugs and therapy, surgery already for many of the forms but there are forms which cannot be treated completely with these, there are generally comeback of tumors. Such are the aggressive forms of cancer wherein the genetic mutation has taken place so for these there has to be done engineering at molecular level leading to evolution of exciting new ways of cancer treatment. Turning off gene could be one solution which can be done by siRNA. Applying these gene blockers in medicine is difficult as it may get degrade if comes in contact of enzymes, so they needs to be packed and protected well till they reach target gene. These can fight against most aggressive cancer forms as well. This molecularly designed medicine is super weapon which is a nano-particle. 
This therapy of developing super weapon can be personalized that means different siRNA layers can be added in order to address different mutations and different tumor defense mechanism. Also,

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