Individualized Treatment Through Personalized Medicine
Personalised medicine turns this approach on its head. It recognizes that complex diseases should no longer be considered as a single entity. One disease may have many different forms, or ‘subtypes’, resulting from the complex interaction of our biological make-up and the diverse pathological and physiological processes in our bodies. These will not only vary between patients who have the same disease but also within an individual patient as they get older and their body changes. As we integrate and analyses genomic and other data, we can find common factors and causes of variation, resulting in the discovery of new pathways of disease, changing how diseases are thought of and treated. It enables us to recognize that the same underlying change in our DNA or genome can lead to problems in very different parts of the body, which would not have been previously identified with a more traditional care approach.
- Scope of Personalized Medicine in Present day Medicine
- Key Players in the Development of Personalized Medicine
- A new targeted treatment approach
- Prediction and prevention of disease