Personalized Medicine; New Medical Approach

Personalized medicine is a new concept in disease treatment, which includes determining particular information about an individual patient and then prescribing a treatment that is specific for that patient. Personalized medicine presents an attitude for defining disease subtypes and defining biomarkers that can recognize patients who are most likely to benefit from a particular treatment and other patients who are doubtful to respond or likely to experience side events.Not every patient with a disease such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes or even mental disorders will respond the same way to a therapy. Some patients respond to a treatment whereas others do not. The reason may be a genetic propensity to respond or not respond to a medication. The physician must evaluate every patient and then try to guess which treatment will be better. So personalized information about that patient, including information about his/her genotype will help the physician to choose a suitable strategy for preventing, detecting, treating, or monitoring of him/her. This approach would then lead to better results without wasting time on unsuccessful cure. To sum up, Personalized medicine advantages such as identification of genes and biomarkers which can be used in screening tests and allocation of resources to prevent or detect the high-risk individuals will help to prevent some diseases before the they appear. Furthermore selection of individualized therapies for affected individuals, measurement of circulating biomarkers of disease to monitor the response to prevention or therapy would be helpful in therapy management.

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personalized medicine ، genetics ، diagnosis ، treatment