This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily
practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the
experiences concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision
oncology is practiced enacted imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses
bioethical dilemmas scientific challenges and economic trade-offs the need for new policies
further technological innovation social work as well as phenomenological research.This volume
takes a broad actor-centred perspective as whenever cancer is present the range of actors
with issues at stake appears almost unlimited. This perspective and approach opens up the
possibility for further in-depth and diverse questions posed by the actors themselves such
as: How are cancer researchers navigating biological uncertainties? How do clinicians and
policy-makers address ethical dilemmas around prioritisation of care? What are the patients'
experiences with and hopes for precision oncology? How do policy-makers and entrepreneurs
envisage precision oncology? These questions are of great interest to a broad audience
including cancer researchers oncologists policy-makers medical ethicists and philosophers
social scientists patients and health economists.
