Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2018
Are we being misled about precision medicine?
12 September 2018 - Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the cancer patients they’ve saved, and reporters love to write about them. But deaths still vastly outnumber the rare successes.
Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in “precision medicine” — in which doctors try to match patients with drugs that target the genetic mutations in their tumors. She underwent repeated biopsies to identify therapies that might help.
“She believed in it wholeheartedly,” said her husband, Scott Primiano of Amityville, N.Y.
