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May 29, 2025, 21:35
Toufic Kachaamy: Are the rich, famous and powerful treated differently when it comes to cancer screening?
Toufic Kachaamy, Chief of Medicine and Director of Gastroenterology at City of Hope, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Are the rich, famous and powerful treated differently when it comes to cancer screening?
Power, privilege, and fame have always opened doors but not all of them.
The surprising cancer diagnoses of President Biden and the Princess of Wales serve as powerful reminders: even the most privileged among us can be caught off guard by disease.
These moments highlight a sobering reality there are still critical gaps in our approach to cancer detection that money and influence cannot close.
Cancer screening guidelines were built to save the most lives with the most efficient use of resources. But a “one-size-fits-all” model struggles to account for individual risk. That’s the complex challenge we face today.
Thankfully, the future holds promise.
We are entering an era where genomic medicine and artificial intelligence are transforming what’s possible accelerating our path toward truly personalized cancer screening. But innovation brings new questions:
• How do we avoid the harms of over-testing?
• How do we manage the anxiety of too much information?
• And most importantly: where should we invest our energy and resources to turn weakness into wellness?
We don’t just need better tools. We need smarter, more equitable systems that empower people to act on what matters most for their health and their lives and we are on the way to achieve this. This is a very exciting time in medicine. “
Read about President Joe Biden’s diagnosis.
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