Amazing reporting, as to be expected from this guy. This is why I subscribe to newspapers!
- I forgot Carreyrou went to NYTimes
- These types of huckster clinics performing highly invasive procedures outside of responsible national oversight do a great deal of damage to modern medicine and the advancement of new therapies as a whole.
- I constantly worry that this stuff will creep over the US border as a result of deregulation or gutted regulatory systems.
- It’s a shame that this is a circulating tumor cell (CTC) technology. That said, the field (my previous field) is advancing very little even in diagnostics and treatment monitoring.
- Personally, I don’t believe clearing CTCs is therapeutically useful. I think they are waste products and very few, if any, are metastatic-competent. And I feel that’s been a main reason they have not advanced in diagnostics. Of course we still have a purification problem.
- I wonder how they counted CTCs. Did they just pull the device out? CellSearch or another validated technology would have a lot of trouble detecting a ‘decrease’ as they are too insensitive to be much more than positive/negative indications.
- Anyway, I hope this was above the fold today. It seemed pretty buried on the website.
I got some hobbying done — or more accurately, partially completed — over the holiday break. I’m really hoping to use this blog as motivation for that. However, I have busied myself with tying up loose ends in my old job and am in week 2 of training at the new job. The new job will certainly afford me more time in the future as I settle into routines.