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Cancer patients can now be 'matched' to best treatment with DNA
- jseliger 3y agoThis is obviously good, but I will note: Although doctors can read any patient’s DNA today, interpreting the results to understand how a patient will respond to cancer treatment is much more challenging and My team and I have started two clinical trials to expand the results of our previous studies on providing treatment recommendations through functional precision medicine. We’re recruiting a larger cohort of adults and children with cancers that have come back or are resistant to treatment. Right now, as far as I can tell, no company is the equivalent of CARIS (https://www.carislifesciences.com/ https://www.carislifesciences.com/) in molecular profiling, or Natera in circulating-tumor DNA: https://www.natera.com/ https://www.natera.com/. My wife and I have been looking into companies that match tumors with treatments and not finding a lot. Just trying to find a company that'll do whole tumor sequencing is hard. So while cancer patients "can now be 'matched,'" it's still, unless I'm missing something (always possible), quite hard to go from "I am a cancer patient" to "Here are some matches."