Response from: Julia Schopick

I have been reading about this gene test with great interest and a little puzzlement, since another sensible way to appraise the efficacy of a chemotherapy treatment, called Chemosensitivity Testing, has existed for many years. This other kind of testing can also tell which chemotherapy will work best on a patient prior to loading his or her body up with a toxic treatment that may well not work. Chemosensitvity Testing has been pioneered by both Robert Nagourney, MD and his colleague Larry Weisenthal, MD (www.weisenthal.org), both well known experts/pioneers in the area of this controversial, but well-studied protocol. Briefly, these physicians test a person's cancer cells outside the body, in vitro, to see which chemotherapies will work best to kill the person's particular cancer. To read more about Chemosensitivity Testing, you may go to the left side of my website, http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com.You
will see the link to this treatment under "cutting edge(sometimes controversial) treatments." Or go directly to http://www.rationaltherapeutics.com/
or http://www.weisenthal.org.
I hope you find this treatment interesting, as well. Thanks.
Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com