New Frontiers of Cancer Treatment Bring Breathtaking Swings

A drug that in theory should have killed a cancer patient instead seemed to have halted or even reversed her disease.

 

For the first time since a rare cancer appeared eight years before, her lymph nodes had shrunk to a normal size, her skin was no longer bright red and inflamed, and the itchiness that plagued her had subsided.

Mrs. McDaniel, the 69-year-old wife of a retired corporate executive, had gambled on the ultimate in personalized medicine, an approach known as whole genome sequencing, and it seemed to be paying off.
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