Driven by highly specialized medicine, research and the quest for personalization of treatments, oncology witnessed substantial advances in 2019. This year numerous treatments have consolidated their importance and broadened their indications. Multiple innovative treatments, currently under study, brought hope for future advances, while biomarkers, such as PD-L1, microsatellite instability (MSI), tumor mutational burden (TMB), BRCA1/2 gene mutations, and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) allowed better selection and customization of available treatments. This article provides an overview of this year's advances in oncology.
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