to brain cancer in 2018. the former labour cabinet minister spent her last months campaigning for more funding and research into the condition. the brain cancer is the biggest- cancer killer of children and people under 40 in the uk, yet treatment. options have not changed in decades. because this is low grade. just two weeks after surgery, daniel returns to addenbrooke s with his brother to receive his results. this is a diagnosis that is treatable, but it s not a curable condition. ok, so this is something that will be life limiting. about 50% of people survive for 15 years or more. but i think it s important that you understand this isn t something that s going to go away. yeah.
consideration for patients so it really manages the whole spectrum which is what is so powerful about it and it is the thing and time and notjust brain cancer but cancer more broadly, precision medicine is the space in which they will go from being incurable to entire treatable. in time treatable. being incurable to entire treatable. in time treatable. in time treatable. what are the other options in time treatable. what are the other options that in time treatable. what are the other options that might - in time treatable. what are the other options that might have - in time treatable. what are the | other options that might have been available to your mum other than chemotherapy or to other patients. when she was diagnosed as a result of the extensive work she did and public health when the news became known to friends and colleagues of her diagnosis and prognosis we were an undated offers of advice and informally support from people and all over the world. this f
checks his responses. part of daniel s tumour will be sent for whole genome sequencing. its entire dna will be mapped. what that means is essentially we re looking at the abnormalities in the genes that we think caused the tumor in the first place. so we re really able to drill down into the molecular problems in the tumor. daniel s diagnosis, his future rests on what they find in these tubes. dna sequencing used to take months. now it can be done in days. at these labs near cambridge of us biotech illumina. not only does it speed up diagnosis, but reveals what is driving the growth of a patient s cancer. nothing can prepare a patient. or a family for the nuclear bomb that detonates at the center of your world i when you receive a diagnosis. jess lost her mother, tessa jowell,
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