Comments on: One Step Closer to Personalized Medicine http://pcshannon.com/2007/06/16/one-step-closer-to-personalized-medicine/ Don't mind if I do Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: docwedley http://pcshannon.com/2007/06/16/one-step-closer-to-personalized-medicine/#comment-505 docwedley Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:12:10 +0000 http://www.pcshannon.com/blog/2007/06/one-step-closer-to-personalized-medicine/#comment-505 It is, of course, my personal hope that pharmacogenomics really takes off. What we have now in terms of tailoring chemotherapies for certain cancers based upon receptor phenotypes is already revolutionizing oncology. That's the draw of molecular pathology, for sure, and hopefully just the tip of the iceberg. Its easy to concieve of drugs which might benefit some people and not others, based on enzyme / receptor polymorphisms, that might fall through the cracks if simply studied on a population level, but when the response can be correlated to the gene profile of the individual, then we'll have some truly powerful new weapons to fight disease. DocWedley It is, of course, my personal hope that pharmacogenomics really takes off. What we have now in terms of tailoring chemotherapies for certain cancers based upon receptor phenotypes is already revolutionizing oncology. That’s the draw of molecular pathology, for sure, and hopefully just the tip of the iceberg. Its easy to concieve of drugs which might benefit some people and not others, based on enzyme / receptor polymorphisms, that might fall through the cracks if simply studied on a population level, but when the response can be correlated to the gene profile of the individual, then we’ll have some truly powerful new weapons to fight disease.

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