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7 Additional Challenges
Pages 65-66

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... Dr. Barker noted the need for patient privacy protections with personalized nanomedicines, and the major challenge of having clinicians adopt nanotechnologies, once they are on the market.
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... In regards to developing nanomedicines that can prevent cancer, Dr. Hawk claimed that there are major concerns by industry that such a venture will not be profitable because of the long time frames needed to conduct the relevant clinical studies, and because they may not be able to patent their discoveries.
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