Multiple Myeloma- Dancing In the Rain with MyelomaTeacher

I recently attended the Cancer Moonshot Summit held at Howard University in Washington, DC.  A lot of talk at the summit revolved around Precision Medicine. Last year, President Obama announced the launch of the  Precision Medicine Initiative  (PMI) – an effort to accelerate a new era of medicine, focused on delivering more tailored health care. We are already using precision medicine in some areas of healthcare.  If you need a blood transfusion your blood is typed prior to the transfusion and you are given the exact match based on that result.  If you need to wear glasses you are given a prescription based on your current eyesight. Precision Medicine and Myeloma I am one of the few old-timers that still wear hard contact lenses. My prescription is not only based on my eyesight, but my eye care practitioner measures the exact shape of my cornea and prescribe lenses with the curvature, size, and corrective power that suit MY particular eyes. But in cancer, until recently, treatments wer