Precision Genomics and Immunotherapy: Cancer and Beyond - Exploring Ethics

Breakthroughs in genomics and targeted therapies are revolutionizing the practice of clinical oncology. Precision genomics and immunotherapy offer promise to improve outcomes in cancer, but doing so means we need to move beyond historical models for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Razelle Kurzrock, MD discusses insights from this rapidly changing field and addresses some of the ethical challenges that must be met if we are to transform the lives of patients with cancer. [6/2021] [Show ID: 36637]

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[markobabic]

You are true heroes. Seeing this I'm just more motivated to help do my part in science.
I hope I'll have the opportunities to go into the research I'm aiming towards and help simplify immunotherapies for people to use, so we can have cheaper and better drugs to create this personalized approach more easily. Although these are just the dreams of a masters student for now.

I feel such a connection to humanity knowing there are people that I don't know, never met or don't even know to exist that are working towards creating a word in which we address cancer in the past tense. "Cancer was an incurable deadly disease...". And all that just by many of us taking just a small role in developing these medicines and culminating the eradication of cancer mortality.

If a cancer patient is reading this: we won't give up on you!

[acj]

Extraordinary, I’m amazed! In this lifetime cancer might be defeated! What about avoiding getting cancer at all based on genomics, somewhere in the future? What about avoiding any disease? Ok sounds sci fi but not really! Ok, I don’t have cancer (not to my knowledge) but I’m really excited about your research! I am going to write you an email with about 5 questions about this presentation if you don’t mind 🙂 Thank you, very interesting and encouraging!

[bve]

Could whole genome sequencing can be further cheaper & data can be given in chips like used in credit card which every one can carry and can be used as a biometric data in many fields. When patients get any disease he can present it to doctor, who using a card reader and software check it and personalized medicine if feasible for almost all diseases as per stored database in remot master computer accessible to all. So the best drugs cost effectively in right time can be given to best possible results.