Sneak peek! As many of you know, one of the first questions I usually ask people when they ask about trials is "What is your MSI status". This is largely because it has a HUGE impact on immunotherapy trial strategy. Explaining the background science and reason why it's important isn't best served by SOLELY writing a Colon Talk Message Thread (but this IS a very important COMPONENT which is why I did it already a month ago or so!! ) --- so I've been working to help develop a major education initiative to try to educate ALL CRC PATIENTS, on the importance of knowing their MSI-status whether actively considering trials or not. This info is of utmost importance for potential trial participants i.e. all non-surgically cured Stage IV patients and even very important for earlier stage patients to have in the back of their minds due to chance of recurrence to Stage IV! Indirectly it also screens for the possibility of Lynch which impacts many treatment strategies. I'm sure we will have followup discussions here which I am looking forward to! Stay tuned, expect a post from me coming very soon........
-DK