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Psychosocial Impact of Personalized Therapies in Oncology
Georgia Schilling1, Frank Schulz-Kindermann2
1Department of Oncology with Section Hematology, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Asklepios Cancer Center Hamburg , Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 1, 22763, Hamburg, Germany. g.schilling@asklepios.com.
Abstract:
Personalized medicine is a keyword in modern oncology summarizing biomarker-driven targeted therapies. Those novel agents enhance our therapeutic portfolio and offer new options for our patients. But the term is often misleading and implicates a tailored therapy to the individual person, but it rather means a treatment stratified on genetic characteristics of the tumor. Molecular therapies raise expectations of curability or long-term treatments making former life-threatening diseases to more chronic ones but this is true only for some patients. So we have to carefully communicate with our patients about the options and limitations of those modern therapies not to trigger disappointments.
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