MedCity News November 22, 2023
Andrew Marshak

We need to take inspiration from the progress in oncology over the last few decades and challenge ourselves to adapt its successful playbook to mental illness. It’s time for precision psychiatry.

While breast cancer garners widespread attention, mental health awareness often lingers in the shadows when compared to other medical conditions. The two diseases stand at opposite ends of the spectrum of diagnosis, treatment and scientific understanding.

It’s time to take a page from advances in breast cancer diagnosis and care and apply it to mental illness. What do I mean by that? Well, thanks to advances in precision medicine, people who receive breast cancer diagnoses today have far more information about the kind of cancer they are facing and...

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