“Just Caring”: Can We Afford the Ethical and Economic Costs of Circumventing Cancer Drug Resistance?

Personalized medicine has been presented in public and professional contexts in excessively optimistic tones. In the area of cancer what has become clear is the extraordinary heterogeneity and resilience of tumors in the face of numerous targeted therapies. This is the problem of cancer drug resista...

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Main Author: Leonard M. Fleck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-07-01
Series:Journal of Personalized Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/3/3/124