Oncologists Struggle to Utilize Precision Medicine

  The challenges faced by oncologists in using biomarker-based tests were underlined in a recent article by Dr. Marcus Neubauer in OncLive. In recent posts in this blog I have focused on the challenges of interpreting genomic data, but Dr. Neubauer emphasizes two...

Barrier to Adoption: Uncertainty About Sample Requirements

Interesting survey (sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim) of pulmonologists and pathologists regarding barriers to adoption of biomarker testing of lung cancer patients. Key finding: “Both pulmonologists and pathologists said the biggest challenges with biomarker...

Should psychiatrists be testing their patients for drug response?

We have just conducted a review of the biomarkers in drug labels to complete the population of the theranostic clinical biomarkers in BiomarkerBase™, and it was not surprising to note how well-represented the cytochrome p450’s are in the labels of approved...