Man’s recurring tumors may change cancer care
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57521385/mans-recurring-tumors-may-change-cancer-care/
This is a great idea and likely one that will (should it be proven) turn out to be a huge boon to cancer treatment, possibly in as little as a half decade. The wonder for me, though, is that its adoption might be stifled because of the patents surrounding it. I find it hard to believe that no one else has done something similar, certainly similar enough for lawyers to have a field day, so I see this being caught up in courts for years, likely decades, and no one being able to take advantage of it because no one knows who the owners of the IP are and even if the patent is even viable.
Too bad, though. This could dramatically alter one of the most difficult to treat diseases that, collectively, is the source of a huge amount of suffering world wide.
