Personalized Medicine

Personalized Medicine

Introduction

Personalized medicine carries a promise: to improve the safety and effectiveness of medical treatment received by each patient, especially in the presence of deadly diseases. Personalized medicine could have a real impact on the future of health care and that, in several key sectors, namely:

Diagnosis: Obtaining genetic information could help to further clarify the genetic variant of the disease suffered by a patient or his predisposition to certain diseases (Brockmoller, 2000).

Patient Selection: Biomarkers can help physicians guide their decisions about treatment to administer to their patients by providing information that helps determine which patients are ...