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What Netflix can teach us about treating cancer

  • Written by Elana Fertig, Assistant Professor of Oncology Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University
imageA tumor under the microscope.Cropped from cnicholsonpath/flickr, CC BY

Two years ago, former President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine initiative in his State of the Union Address. The initiative aspired to a “new era of medicine” where disease treatments could be specifically tailored to each patient’s genetic code....

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