Systems Biology approaches to cancer: towards new therapeutical strategies and personalized approaches

ABSTRACT Network approaches are ubiquitous, from social and ecological systems up to complex biological processes. In our recently published work we used the network framework for a Systems Medicine approach to multiple cancer types, in order to highlight similitudes and differences that can be exploited to extend existing therapeutical strategies. These approaches shed new light to oncological processes, but allow also to pose “old” questions (like the search for novel drug targets) in a “new” way.