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Cancer patients can now be 'matched' to best treatment with DNA

7 pointsby birrielabout 1 year ago

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jseligerabout 1 year ago
This is obviously good, but I will note:<p><i>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</i><p>and<p><i>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.</i><p>Right now, as far as I can tell, no company is the equivalent of CARIS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.carislifesciences.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.carislifesciences.com&#x2F;</a>) in molecular profiling, or Natera in circulating-tumor DNA: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.natera.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.natera.com&#x2F;</a>. 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&#x27;ll do whole tumor sequencing is hard.<p>So while cancer patients &quot;can now be &#x27;matched,&#x27;&quot; it&#x27;s still, unless I&#x27;m missing something (always possible), quite hard to go from &quot;I am a cancer patient&quot; to &quot;Here are some matches.&quot;