via Tom Lee Genotyping of cancers to deliver personalized treatment is the smart approach. I agree with the optimism in this story about the exponential gains in cancer research.
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Chief executive of Cancer Research UK predicts a golden era in cancer research as a result of our better understanding of the genetic differences between tumours in different patients.
Is curing cancer going to be a good thing for our species?
Provocative question! For young people with cancer, definitely yes, since they have only just begun their contribution to the human endeavor. Since cancers are a combination of genetic and environmental factors, its not as though every cured patient is passing along ‘bad’ genes. What do you think?
WARNING: facetious response:
As I have told my PCP over and over and over again, I don’t need no mammogram, I’m a cardiovascular girl.
Martha E Fay I ❤ you! Great sense of humor.
Oh nothing coherent yet Rajini except that one by one we are reducing redundancies in everything we touch and at great costs to ourselves and the world that we are part of.
As frequently as I am disgusted with the direction of our human species, breakthroughs and learnings of science is one area which gives me hope