I agree. Clearly Patients are desperate to be involved in this industry but in just a few years it’s going to seem such an outdated idea to make an appointment with a specific clinic in the hope of finding a Physician who will be able to match you with a clinical trial that will accept you.
“Five or 6 years ago, only 5% to 10% of patients at David Hong, MD,’s clinic arrived with a mutational profile of their tumor. Today, it’s more like 25% to 30%. They come bearing their tumor profile in the hope that they’ll qualify for one of a growing number of clinical trials targeting specific biomarkers, a strategy called precision medicine. Desperate, some come already knowing that they qualify for a particular trial, thanks to Facebook groups for cancer patients whose tumors share the same genetic abnormality and other online resources”
As I explain in this talk I gave at the Mobile Clinical Congress in Edinburgh the step change happens when we think like the BornMobile generation and let Patients and Clinicians rate Clinical Trials…
