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Access to Gene-Directed Therapies
Category: Videos
Tags: Patient voice, Rare inherited disease, Research, Targeted treatment
Targeted therapies can offer hope to patients with cancer and rare diseases. Here, Iain Emmerson, who has the condition tuberous sclerosis complex, talks about the impact of being offered a new gene-directed therapy, everolimus, which it is hoped will significantly extend his life.
This film forms part of our Clinical Genetics in Action series, created in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians.
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