Testing Testing…: Personal Medicine, Breast Cancer, and Policy

Personalized medicine is supposed to usher an era in which treatments are tailored to individuals. And HER2 testing has long been seen as heralding the promise of personalized medicine: tumors that test positive for an amplified HER2 gene are more likely to be responsive to drugs, like trastuzumab, that block the HER2 receptor. Some may… Continue reading Testing Testing…: Personal Medicine, Breast Cancer, and Policy