These "personalized treatments" are just a PR stunt, mainly for IBM. Will your health insurance company pay for advanced treatment like this? Mine won't even come close and we have a reputed "very good" plan.

While the headlines from studies make it sound like we're close to this, we are miles away .. so far away that unless you are in the 1% and paying with your own money, or risk joining into a study that just happens to be doing what you want and are lucky enough not to be in the placebo group. At least that's the way I see it in the states. Perhaps it's much better in the UK or France, I don't know.

If there was ANY interest in "personalized treatment" your docs would do genetic testing first and you would be getting all kinds of serum tests and biopsies, etc. In my experience they never do this stuff till it's almost always too late. Insurance companies determine the treatment methods because they determine what they will pay for.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant .. I guess it is. Has anyone here had a different experience in the US, or any country for that matter?