For Now, Sequencing Cancer Tumors Holds More Promise Than Proof

(By Richard Harris for NPR)

People diagnosed with cancer understandably reach for the very best that medical science has to offer. That motivation is increasingly driving people to ask to have the DNA of their tumors sequenced. And while that’s useful for some malignancies, the hype of precision medicine for cancer is getting far ahead of the facts. Continue reading article here…

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