I read everything that arrives, and I answer what I can.
The best way to reach me is by email:
andy at crcblueprint dot com
A few things worth saying before you write, so that nobody is disappointed by the reply.
What I cannot do
I am a molecular biologist and a patient. I am not an oncologist, I am not your oncologist, and I cannot advise on your case. I cannot tell you whether to take a supplement, join a trial, have the surgery, or change a treatment. Everything on this site is written to help you have a better conversation with your own team, not to replace it, and that holds for anything I write back to you as well.
About your own reports
Please do not attach a pathology report or a genomic panel to an ordinary email and ask what it means. Not because the question is a bad one — it is the best question most people ask me — but because doing it properly takes hours of reading before I could say anything useful, and an answer dashed off between other things would be worth less than no answer at all.
That work is what the one-to-one sessions are for: I read the report, I read the literature behind it, and we go through it properly in a call. It is a paid arrangement and there is a form there that asks for what I need. Nothing is booked until we have both agreed to it.
Scans are a different matter, and the answer there is simply no. Reading the images is a radiologist’s job, not a biologist’s, and nobody without that training should be doing it.
What I am glad to hear about
- Anything on this site that is wrong, out of date, or badly explained. Corrections are genuinely welcome, and the more specific the better.
- A paper or a trial you think deserves covering.
- Questions about the book, or trouble getting hold of a copy.
- Anything that was unclear, or that you wish had been in it.
If you are writing because you have just been diagnosed: I am sorry, and I do read those. Replies can take a while, and they are worth less than the conversation you should be having with your oncology team — but you are not writing into a void.