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> repeat until cancer goes away or patient dies This sounds very similar to participating in a clinical trial and to me ironically seems to be the opposite of
by gregwebs 5y ago
> repeat until cancer goes away or patient dies
This sounds very similar to participating in a clinical trial and to me ironically seems to be the opposite of precision medicine.
The Nagourney Cancer Institute cultures live cancer cells from the patient to test for what drugs may work. Doesn't work for everyone, but seems more in line with precision. Whereas genomic sequencing hasn't produced the amazing results that were expected.
- throwaway894345 5y ago> This sounds very similar to participating in a clinical trial and to me ironically seems to be the opposite of precision medicine. yes, to be clear this is a description of "standard of care" in which oncologists follow a playbook based on the type of cancer. Precision medicine (as I, a lay person, understand it) involves picking a treatment that is very likely to work based on an individual's genes, the genes of their tumor, their past medical history, and other relevant factors. The idea is to use all available information to identify the treatment that is the most likely to succeed for that individual.
- chefkoch 5y ago> The Nagourney Cancer Institute cultures live cancer cells from the patient to test for what drugs may work. That assumes you have time for this. Very often treatment is started within days or even hours of diagnosis.