Goes to her doctor, who orders a lung ct scan and a new blood test developed through research supported by the Precision Medicine initiative to look for dna and other biomarkers circulating in her blood. The ct scan detects a tiny spot that could be inflammation from bronchitis or cancer not clear, but the biomarker test clinches the diagnosis, revealing a genetic mutation that occurs only in patients with cancer. In 2015, today her prognosis from this cancer would be pretty grim. But in 2018 that could all change. Lily is treated with surgery to remove the tumor and the tumor dna undergoes molecular analysis. Based on those results, lily is treated with a targeted drug that was originally developed for skin cancer but has the right properties for her tumor. She also receives a course of immunotherapy designed to kill any tumor cells that may be lurking in her body. With this treatment a decade later, lily remains cancer free. Thats a hypothetical but quite realistic of what the cancer
This morning were Holding Hearing on continuing americas leadership realizing the promise of Precision Medicine. Well have an Opening Statement then introduce our witnesses, who are getting to be very familiar to us. Were very grateful to you for coming. After that, we will have time to ask five minute rounds of questions or two, depending how many senators are here. We are here today to discuss exciting new direction in our health care called Precision Medicine. What does that mean . Well, those of us in the room a good representation of the population, they estimate one in ten of us would have diabetes. If doctors could use Precision Medicine, that is if they could look at our individual dna and genetic, molecular makeup of disease, perhaps they could tailor treatments to each individual rather than to more general category of diabetes. I was visited this morning by the head of philadelphia Childrens Hospital who talked about their work in identifying a defective gene, mutated geneti
Challenges we face as a country, they are pretty stark challenges and our politics are terrible. But i would think you would rather have our challenges than any major emerging economy around the world. Watch that entire event from the milken institutes global conference tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Here are some of our featureded programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan, saturday starting at noon. Politicians, white house officials and Business Leaders offer advise and encouragement to the class of 2015. Speakers include former president , george w. Bush and chair of dreamworks animation. At 9 15. Former Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush. And sunday afternoon more commencement speeches from across the country with former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and madeline albright. On cspan 2 saturday morning book tv is in new york city with events from book expo america beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments throughout the day
The trauma of march 15 is not easily healed. But today i hope is the last where we have any cause to here or utter the name of the terrorist behind it. Hurricane laura makes landfall along the coast of louisiana hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes. £13 per day the government trials payments for those on low incomes who have to self isolate in parts of england. And if you have been affected by not being able to work whilst self isolating,or youd like to share your thoughts on this or any of our other stories with me, you can contact me on twitter at annita mcveigh, or use the hashtag bbc your questions. A warning that complacency over getting the flu jab, could lead to the nhs being overwhelmed. And top tier basketball and baseball teams in the us boycott their matches, amid anger over the shooting of jacob blake by police in wisconsin. Hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. The man who opened fire on two mosques in new zealand last year and kil
Gain for the Third Straight session yesterday. The s p 500 closing up for the on seventh day in a row and also worth noting today, the new york fed president William Dudley will be speaking in paris a little later this morning. The topic, on the reform of overthe counter derivatives. And the fkk will be meeting at the exchange eggs on the introduction of trading at the nasdaq all the way whack on august 22nd. So its about time we see some of this. Were going preview that with harvey pitt and ron guffner. Thats coming up in the next hour. Joe. Thanks, becky. Something is different about something is different. The pitter patter of little feet. I hear the pitter patter of little feet. Someone was out late at the diblasio victory party. And what a party it was. It was unbelievable . It was a late night. Are you hung . Hung over . A little bit. I thought he was sleeping. Not his it was a long evening. He was on top of the world. We celebrated. My voice is a little you know. From cheering.