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Era of Personalized Prevention Comes with Challenges |
By Rich McManus |
Although the era of personalized cancer prevention is already under way, the decisions people will have to make regarding their own risk of disease are likely to get no easier.
Epidemiologists are getting better at predicting who will come down with which ailment when—which is an undoubted benefit. But their studies, while offering a clearer picture of what is likely to occur, will require patients to exhibit the wisdom of Solomon in making health care choices.
That was the take-home message of Stanford epidemiologist
Dr. Alice Whittemore’s recent Wednesday Afternoon Lecture. Her talk, “Personalized Cancer Prevention,”
was the 14th Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture, held annually to commemorate the late Dr. Gordon, an esteemed NIH scientist.
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