Cancer Treatments -- Old News

Yahoo! News, MS-NBC, and some other news outlets released an Associated Press story on Monday about how cancer research is becoming "personalized." Advanced colon cancer patients, for example, are now required to get a genetic test before being treated with certain chemotherapy drugs to determine if the drugs will actually work. The $300 test might save $600 million every year by not giving unnecessary drugs to colon cancer patients.



You can read the full article here.



Of course, the most interesting part of this "news" is that you read about personalization strategies right here -- twice -- in the last couple of months.



I'll bet you didn't realize just how cutting edge the Lympho Bob blog was, did you? You know about stuff weeks, even months, before the mainstream media picks it up.



Seriously, though, it's just more encouragement for me, not just because of what this article says and what it means for my own future treatments, but also because I'm comforted to know that I'm pretty up on what's going on out there. Makes for more informed decisions when the time comes.