Precision Medicine in Oncology: Monitoring Cancer Using a Urine Sample | Antonius Schuch | TEDxUCSD

Antonius Schuch challenges and shows us how precise analytical techniques can help us address the needs of healthcare and improve the quality of life.


Antonius Schuh joined Trovagene as Chief Executive Officer in October 2011 and was elected as a Director in December 2011. He is a certified pharmacist and earned his PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Bonn, Germany.

[VicenteMReyes]

If the cancer has already metastasized, will "precision medicine" (PM) still work? How can PM possibly get rid of the countless cells that have spread to other organs?

[IIIO]

This would leas to a pretty utopian behaviour with cancer; There have to be safer methods regards dealing with cancer than this. Experimenting with your DNA would only be useful/rational just with a very few extreme examples, not in generell at all. You do not know which long-term consequences this would trigger! DNA is such a fundamental part of our whole nature and so of course also a essential part of us. Without the mutation process nature would not be possible. By your methods, you may influence the process of evolution which would definitely not be able to be worth it! So the long term consequences has to be clear first, exept a few extreme examples who don't have any alternatives. So scientists should concentrade more projects and experiments with DNA first! If you let modified organism into our system of the nature, this may lead to critical consequences of our gen-pool and so with the future of the whole mankind