Do Precision Medicine Treatments Have Different Side Effects? | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Channel: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · 2015 · Science & Technology
How do side effects from precision medicine treatments differ from the side effects patients experience during traditional chemotherapy treatment? Barrett Rollins, MD, PhD, and David Jackman, MD, explain how and why patients may experience different side effects. Rollins is chief scientific officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Linde Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Jackman is a medical oncologist with Dana-Farber's Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. This video is an excerpt from a live video webchat on precision medicine and lung cancer. Watch the full webchat video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9Al1f6k2w For more information on precision cancer medicine, visit: http://www.precisioncancermedicine.org.
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