AAMC August 13, 2018
Vast repositories of patient data hold clues to better treatments. The challenge lies in extracting meaningful information from those data while still safeguarding patient privacy.
Eric Dishman had run out of options. After 23 years of battling a rare form of kidney cancer, his kidneys were failing, dialysis was not an option because of the chemo treatments, and he wasn’t a good candidate for a transplant. During that time, he had undergone more than 60 rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy, at a cost of $6 million.
The computer scientist was then in his early 40s and a fellow at Intel. A colleague suggested he undergo a whole genome sequencing — which saved his life. It turned out his...
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