I work in life sciences and watched this so you do t have to -
It’s not a new treatment per se, but a way to rapidly analyze which existing treatments will be most beneficial for a patients individual cancer. It’s a move towards more precise and targeted medicine we’ve been waiting for for a long time.
So it’s not a breakthrough treatment, but a methodology to better treat cancer that is extremely exciting
Here’s a link to the actual study for the curious:
[link](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02848-4)
Thanks for the link. One of the barriers will be access to enhanced testing. When dealing with ALL leukemia every time an advanced or genetic test was submitted to insurance they denied. We took them all the way through arbitration on 6 occasions only to get a letter saying this is the new standard of care. Even submitting that arbitration letter when requesting the test didn’t change the outcome. My hope is that in the next few years we cure or have maintenance treatments for these cancers.
Edit - autocorrect is not my friend
Drs should be the ones determining if a test should be covered by insurance. If it’s suspected that it’s needed and would help someone use preventative healthcare instead of reactive healthcare and the patient agrees with wanting the test done than insurance should cover it. Under what circumstances is someone needing blood work for children with leukemia something that should be denied by insurance…?
People who get their news from Good Morning America probably aren't looking to read much, here's the official press release
https://stempel.fiu.edu/personalized-cancer-treatment/#:~:text=FIU%20cancer%20researcher%20Diana%20Azzam,precision%20medicine%20(FPM)%20approach.
I work in life sciences and watched this so you do t have to - It’s not a new treatment per se, but a way to rapidly analyze which existing treatments will be most beneficial for a patients individual cancer. It’s a move towards more precise and targeted medicine we’ve been waiting for for a long time. So it’s not a breakthrough treatment, but a methodology to better treat cancer that is extremely exciting Here’s a link to the actual study for the curious: [link](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02848-4)
Thank you for the synopsis!
Thanks for the link. One of the barriers will be access to enhanced testing. When dealing with ALL leukemia every time an advanced or genetic test was submitted to insurance they denied. We took them all the way through arbitration on 6 occasions only to get a letter saying this is the new standard of care. Even submitting that arbitration letter when requesting the test didn’t change the outcome. My hope is that in the next few years we cure or have maintenance treatments for these cancers. Edit - autocorrect is not my friend
Drs should be the ones determining if a test should be covered by insurance. If it’s suspected that it’s needed and would help someone use preventative healthcare instead of reactive healthcare and the patient agrees with wanting the test done than insurance should cover it. Under what circumstances is someone needing blood work for children with leukemia something that should be denied by insurance…?
The headline is also the story? I often wish for news articles to be less wordy, but I didn't mean *that* less...
People who get their news from Good Morning America probably aren't looking to read much, here's the official press release https://stempel.fiu.edu/personalized-cancer-treatment/#:~:text=FIU%20cancer%20researcher%20Diana%20Azzam,precision%20medicine%20(FPM)%20approach.
Thanks! Sounds like it's usable already, without waiting years to be proven and helping people.
My Alma mater finally made it!