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Getting Personal With Cancer - The Buzz About Personalized Medicine For Prostate Cancer

Dec 13 2012 | comment(s)

“Personalized medicine! What is that?”

Your question is justified.

It was also something that Terry Procter from Peterborough, Ontario thought when he was sent a questionnaire for his opinion on the subject. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had his prostate removed in 2007. So, what is personalized medicine and what is the connection to cancer?

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Anonymous Snowboarder Needs Sn
Add another. Though have to admit, a PhD stats class makes me shudder ;)

The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown · 1 day ago
Anonymous Snowboarder Needs Sn
Mr T - I too have been a bit less frequent a visitor, obligations, priorities, etc, but do still try to check in periodically. I'll try to drop a comment now and then too! Glad to read that...

Interna · 1 day ago
Tommaso Dorigo
Hi, the place is one where I can store impressions... Not everybody! Anyway thanks for your comment. I do not understand what MOND has to do with the post though.
Best,
T.

Interna · 1 day ago
Manuel Chaniotakis
Well phrased! The only change I would make to go to "high energies" would be to remove the spectrometer and instead increase the temperature so much that both liquid and solid chocolate...

Electroweak Symmetry And The Chocolate Interaction · 3 days ago
Fred Altieri
And sentiments reiterated by two more robots - Claude: "Final Assessment: This is an effective piece of science communication that demystifies a complex statistical concept by grounding it in...

The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown · 4 days ago

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