Cancer's Last Stand? The Genome Solution - Wielding Genomes in the Fight Against Cancer - NYTimes.com

"The researchers agreed that there should be global clinical trials of new cancer drugs, and that all patients should have genetic information about their tumors entered into databases that researchers everywhere could study. Dr. Lander said that concerns about genetic privacy had been “fetishized,” and that the potential harm to patients from releasing their genetic information paled next to the harm threatened by their disease."