John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
Medical Billing and Coding Training
Social networking links
Individualized Cancer Treatment
August 19, 2008
This Cancer Group from California is offering individualized treatment based on an assay of cancer cells and testing them against specific agents. It is also a revolutionary approach in that you can check on individual patient progress. This breaks out of the standard randomized controlled clinical trial and provides a new avenue for treatment. Is it the new direction for all cancer treatments as cancer represents over 100 diseases and manifests itself differently in each individual?
