President Obama’s State of the Union address in January included an interesting announcement of relevance to all practicing oncologists, their patients, and cancer researchers: the establishment of the Precision Medicine Initiative, which has been underwritten by a US $215 million allocation in the 2016 Budget. The president noted at a subsequent event at which he unveiled the details of the initiative that most medical treatments use the “one-size-fits-all approach,” which as we know, in the reality of our day-to-day practice often translates into a handful of patients enjoying many benefits from a particular therapy, while many patients might see no or very few benefits from the same therapy.
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