Dame Sally Davies Puts The Boot In To Cancer
The lead item on BC Breakfast this morning is detailed in this article on the BBC web site entitled Chief medical officer calls for gene testing revolution.
Dame Sally Davies is very forthright in calling for gene testing to cease being a cottage industry and be nationalised with a large database of all information, to help in the treatment of cancer.
She said that spending the same amount of money on a national system, would bring better treatments to many more patients.
But she didn’t leave it at that and criticised doctors for not wanting a nation system and patients who don’t let their data be added to the national database.
I have been told by Liverpool University, that one of the reasons for their success with pancreatic cancer, is that they have an impressive database of cases from all over the world.
Those who refuse to allow their data to help others, need to be persuaded in the strongest possible way.
The Anonymous Widower 
I agree. Why wouldn’t someone want that opportunity. A lot will depend on how the request is framed I guess.
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