Genentech Dives Into Apps to Help Cancer Patients

Over years of cancer drug research, Genentech Inc. has kept a keen watch on patients: how they respond to drugs in a clinical trial, for example, or what patients need in a next-generation drug.

Yet even as the South San Francisco-based biotech unit of Swiss drug giant Roche developed some of the best-selling and effective cancer drugs — Avastin and Herceptin among them — it heard from patients that the medications themselves were not enough.

Breast cancer patients, in particular, wanted to feel connected to others going through treatment. They wanted more support and resources.

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