Doubtless many will still be reeling over the diagnosis revealed by the on Friday, but as an oncologist of nearly fifty years standing I am happy to say that what she told us – together with the extraordinary advances in the field of care in the last decade in particular - gave me great grounds for optimism.When I started my career in medicine, cancer was something of a dirty word, and everyone got the same treatment, largely in the form of one-size-fits-all chemotherapy.Today, we tailor treatment to the patient, a form of personalised medicine which has been underpinned by the huge advances in molecular and genomic analysis. By examining cancer cells down a microscope in a pathology lab, doctors can now establish a great deal in terms of whether the cancer has spread and the exact risks of it returning.
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