I think it's very important to make women aware that this test does exist, but in the same sense, to caution that many doctor's don't believe in it's accuracy. I've had all of my doctors shoot the idea down and to top it off, told me that there is a large cost involved with this - it's not covered by OHIP. It makes total sense to me though....
I think it's a great idea for a health page.
Becky
This is indeed progress in the treatment of cancer but I have one concern. What I didn't see in this article is one important point I've seen in every other published document. That is that the assay testing is way better at telling what won't work than what will work. Also, I believe they need to be able to grab a slice of a tumor for testing and this is best done during surgery. I had this testing done about two months ago, and my surgeon was very clear about the limitations of the testing. Having said that, it is still, of course, a good thing to know what won't work so we don't waste our time taking toxins and wasting the time to take them if they don't work on our specific cancer if we could be taking something else that might have a chance.