English: stratified medicine

Part of speech

Noun, Feminine, Singular

Definition

Stratified medicine means looking at large groups of cancer patients to try and find ways of predicting which treatments cancers are likely to respond to. It involves looking in detail at the cancer cells and their genetic make up. Researchers want to find out if some treatments are more likely to work in cancers that have particular changes to their genes.

Context

Canolbwyntio ar wella canlyniadau ar gyfer cleifion â chanser yr ysgyfaint: yn enwedig o ran archwilio ymgyrch ymwybyddiaeth, gwella'r mynediad at driniaethau i wella a gwaith ymchwil, a mentrau meddygaeth strata.