Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer

Re:Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of ... by fossuser on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:08PM (#16188319)

I agree - I think the way you 'cure' cancer is probably by doing this.

1. Understand the handful of oncagenes and their mutations that lead to cancer.

2. Sequence every patient's cancer

3. Work on finding drugs like herceptin that nullify the mutations exhibited by the patient.

4. Craft drug cocktails tailored to the patients specific mutations.

5. (In future) - edit the mutation code directly with something like CRISPR.

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Re:Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of ... by ABCLAW on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:29PM (#16189489)

Even if each of these steps was economically viable (which they aren't), this still wouldn't cure cancer.

Diagnostic and screening advances are so useful because plenty of these cancers and cancer related disorders run subclinically, and many of them cause lasting systemic damage even after the rogue cell population is decimated.

Certainly helpful, but not the end of the fight.

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