Personalized Cancer Treatment
Personalized medicine (also called precision medicine or pharmacogenetics) is a new way to fight cancer. Personalized medicine looks at how your DNA affects the way you respond to drugs. This test is not only useful to cancer patients, but can be used to determine drug interaction risk across other disease areas such as cardiovascular, neurological, infectious diseases and more.
The Science
What has traditionally been diagnosed as a single indication via biomarkers, histology and cell morphology is now understood to be multiple disease subtypes in the context of biochemical pathways. As a consequence, the ‘one mutation, one drug’ paradigm, has proven to be of limited value for treatment decisions.