Many living with serious and chronic disease know how your disease path plays with emotions …… great results lift you, disappointing results send you into a dive – it’s an emotional rollercoaster. My Foundation Medicine Patient Community Council colleague who lives with advanced lung cancer, Peggy Dennis, just penned her latest ride on the COSMIC* blog – buy a ticket to read!
*COSMIC is an online database of acquired mutations found in human cancer. Somatic mutations are those that occur in non-germline cells that are not inherited by children. COSMIC, an acronym of Catalogue of Somatic Mutations In Cancer, curates data from the Cancer Genome Project at the Sanger Institute. Wikipedia.