How precision medicine is tackling stubborn cancers in 2024

Thanks to precision medicine—and a dose of AI—even some of the more stubborn cancers are getting treated.

In 2022 alone, there were nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths worldwide, per a report by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). By 2040, the NCI predicts, the number of new cancer cases per year will rise to 29.9 million, and the number of cancer-related deaths will climb to 15.3 million. And though biotech and medtech companies are innovating and devising several ways to effectively treat cancer, it remains the number-one cause of death by disease among children and adolescents in the U.S.