Precision Medicine

Targeted Therapy

New hopes. New anxieties. Learning to live with precision medicine.

Targeted therapies have transformed cancer treatment for many patients — but living with precision medicine brings its own emotional landscape. The hope that comes with a treatment designed for your specific mutation. The anxiety of wondering how long it will work. The strange normalcy of managing a serious disease on a daily pill. The devastating news when resistance develops. These articles address the emotional experience of targeted therapy: what it means to live with cancer as a chronic condition, and how to find stability in that uncertainty.