Opinion: Barriers to genomic testing get in the way of precision medicine
In this era of precision medicine, oncologists should be able to quickly check their patients' genomes. I was surprised to learn that many can't.
As precision medicine opens up promising new advances in cancer care, I often think back to my early days as an oncologist, the patients I treated, and the limited treatment options I had for them.
I especially remember Pam (not her real name). She was in her early 30s, recently married, vibrant, and looking forward to a life filled with joy and children. Pam had acute myeloid leukemia, a disease oncologists had struggled to treat for decades. Her leukemia was relentless: Chemotherapy did little to stop it, and it persisted even
