?? Huge shout-out to the The Wall Street Journal and Brianna Abbott for the powerful write-up today on the unsustainable complexity of cancer care entitled, "Cancer Care is Getting Personal. Local Doctors Can’t Keep Up. More drugs, changing guidelines are too much for general oncologists to track."
See link to full article here: https://lnkd.in/gnFYpP9K
Key messages from the article:
>The vast majority of oncology is practiced in the community setting, where patients prefer to be diagnosed and treated.
>MD Anderson Cancer Center's Peter Pisters notes that it’s possible that 1 in 5 patients in America is getting the wrong treatment.
>The genomics learning curve is too steep.
>Guidelines are impossible to keep up with, and almost impossible to read. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) updated its nearly 90 guidelines across cancer types more than 200 times in the past year.
>Cancer care is getting more complicated. Doctors now think of cancer as more than 100 distinct diseases.
>Community docs often resort to cold-calling specialists at big centers for advice on the best way to treat their patients, in a way that is not scalable.
What is the answer here to support our valuable community oncologists and their patients? Timely and scalable genomics expertise. We have the ability to solve this now, for any patient, anywhere, and it’s the very reason we built Clarified Precision Medicine.?With a combination of human+AI, Clarified closes this critical care gap at the last mile of cancer care.
Lisa Alderson Michael Fleming Howard McLeod Lincoln Nadauld Roy Beveridge MD Daniel Rotroff Linda Greub, CFA, MBA Tracy Dooley MD
