NPR: Personalizing Cancer Treatment With Genetic Tests

[ebethc]

this podcast is soooo on the money.
1. It really parallels the problems w genetic testing that I've had and many others... the results are really not a "roadmap" at all - which what ppl thought it would be when the genome project starting spinning up in the 90s..
2 interesting idea re testing bad tissue vs good tissue, and THEN using genetic test results...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...er-treatment-with-genetic-tests-can-be-tricky

 

[Valentijn]

Some results can be a road map. But most results are a bunch of rocks along the side of the road along the way, only a few of which are likely to having anything underneath them, and with no way to guess which ones they are

Some conclusions can be reached using the right data, but getting too enthusiastic and drawing conclusions which aren't supported leads to a bunch of misunderstandings.

 

[ebethc]

Some results can be a road map. But most results are a bunch of rocks along the side of the road along the way, only a few of which are likely to having anything underneath them, and with no way to guess which ones they are

Some conclusions can be reached using the right data, but getting too enthusiastic and drawing conclusions which aren't supported leads to a bunch of misunderstandings.

@Valentijn - yes - that's really where I am, too, w genetic testing