The Lie of Precision Medicine

My next blog post will be entitled " The Lie of Precision Medicine "— sarcastic_f (@sarcastic_f)June 23, 2018This post will be my own personalized rant about the false promises of personalized medicine. It will not be about neurological or psychiatric diseases, the typical topics for this blog. It will be about oncology, for very personal reasons: misery, frustration, and grief. After seven months of research on immunotherapy clinical trials, I couldn ' t find a single [acceptable] one1 in either Canada or the US that would enroll my partner with stage 4 cancer. For arbitrary reasons, for financial reasons, because it ' s not the “right” kind of cancer, because the tumor ' s too rare, because it ' s too common, because of unlisted exclusionary criteria, because one trial will not accept the genomic testing done for another trial.2 Because of endless waiting and bureaucracy.But first, I ' ll let NIH explain a few terms. Is precision medicine the same as personalized medicine? Yes and no. Seems to me it ' s a bit of a branding issue.What is the difference between precision medicine and personalized medicine?There is a lot of overlap between the terms " precision medicine " and " personalized medicine. "According to the National Research Council, " personalized medicine " is an older term with a meaning similar to " precision medicine. "Here ' s a startling paper from1971,Can Personalized Medicine Survive? (by W.M. GIBSON, MB, ChB inCanadian Family Physician).[it ' s ...
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