A careful look at how liquid biopsy moves from promise toward standardized clinical use.
This episode treats liquid biopsy as an active clinical problem, not just an emerging technology, and stays centered on how precision oncology reaches patients.

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Welcome to the Precision Medicine Podcast by Trapelo. Created and hosted by patient advocate Karan Cushman, this is the podcast where leading voices in cancer explore how to bring precision medicine to patients everywhere.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Karen Cushman makes precision oncology legible by connecting genomic testing, AI, access, and clinical coordination to the decisions shaping cancer care.
Precision Medicine Podcast turns complex cancer care into focused conversations about how testing, targeted treatment, and early detection work in practice.
A mammogram form forgot the father's side; Karen Cushman's guest catches what that could miss.
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A careful look at how liquid biopsy moves from promise toward standardized clinical use.
This episode treats liquid biopsy as an active clinical problem, not just an emerging technology, and stays centered on how precision oncology reaches patients.
A measured look at how precision medicine still runs into access gaps.
Precision medicine is treated less as a breakthrough story than as an access question: who gets tested, who gets counseling, and who reaches the right therapy in time. Karen Cushman opens a new series with Dr.
A clear look at how faster blood testing, mobile phlebotomy, and MRD monitoring could make cancer care more practical.
Liquid biopsy is framed as a blood test that can deliver results in five to seven days, a speed that matters when fast moving cancers leave little room to wait.
A clear look at AI in oncology that stays grounded in clinical tradeoffs.
AI and precision medicine sit inside the present of cancer care here, not some distant promise. The discussion keeps its footing on practical questions: what multi-cancer early detection can and cannot do, why current blood tests still run into sensitivity and specificity…
A steady, patient-centered discussion of colorectal cancer screening and treatment choices.
Precision Medicine Podcast centers on a guest who has lived with stage four colorectal cancer since March 2018 and has gone through surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and a clinical trial.
Policy, testing, and coverage come together in a clear look at how precision medicine reaches patients.
Biomarker testing sits at the center of this episode, and the policy angle stays grounded in that reality. Karen Cushman keeps the discussion practical while Hilary G.
A sober, patient-centered look at precision medicine as access, not abstraction.
Precision medicine is treated here less like a slogan than like a logistics problem: who gets tested, who gets guided, and how cancer care becomes a little less punishing to navigate.
A reflective cancer conversation that puts screening, support, and men's vulnerability in the same frame.
Precision Medicine Podcast presents colorectal cancer as a lived reality, not an abstract diagnosis. Trevor Maxwell, a stage four survivor, patient advocate, and founder of Man Up to Cancer, describes the diagnosis that changed his life and the mental strain that followed.




Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.

Medical research, translated through patient experience.

Part two of Precision Medicine Podcast's colorectal cancer focus.
Precision Medicine Podcast opens a two-part look at liquid biopsy, a blood-based test that could help extend precision diagnosis to more patients, more quickly.
Karen Cushman opens Season 6 by setting the stage around the practical problems oncologists, reference labs, and payers are facing as precision medicine keeps expanding.
Karen Cushman continues the show’s prostate cancer deep dive with Dr.
She found out in her early twenties that she carried the BRCA1 mutation and made decision to undergo preventive mastectomy.
Karen Cushman opens Season 6 by going back to the American Cancer Society's origin story.
Karen Cushman opens the Precision Medicine Podcast with prostate cancer statistics that include one in eight U.S.
Karen Cushman opens by laying out a basic access problem in precision medicine: the gap between a cancer diagnosis and the biomarker testing that can point to the right treatment.
Season 6 opens with a new series focused on bringing precision medicine to more people.
Precision Medicine Podcast episode with Dr.
Precision Medicine Podcast episode 60 features host Karen Cushman and Trevor Maxwell, who has lived with stage 4 colorectal cancer since March 2018 and founded Man Up to Cancer.
Season 7 opens with a sharp look at liquid biopsy and why it matters for precision medicine.
You guys are obviously, you guys are dialed into the benefits of liquid biopsy.