Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics

Biography

Biography: Sergey Suchkov

Abstract

A new systems approach to disease to pay its crucial attention on the trend would result in a new branch in the healthcare services, namely, predictive, preventive and personalized medicine (PPPM). The latter is defined as: “the capacity to predict disease development and influence decisions about lifestyle choices or to tailor medical practice to an individual…”To achieve the practical implementation of PPPM concept, it is necessary to create a fundamentally new strategy based upon the subclinical recognition of biomarkers of hidden abnormalities long before the disease clinically manifests itself. This strategy would give a real opportunity to secure preventive measures whose personalization could have a significant influence on demographics!The key benefits of PPPM would include: (i) to detect disease at a subclinical stage; (ii) to stratify patients into groups that enable the selection of optimal preventive treatment; (iii) to reduce adverse drug effects by more effective early assessment of individual drug responses; (iv) to improve the selection of new targets for drug discovery; (v) to shift the emphasis from illness to wellness.PPPM consists of a wide variety of tests and tools. The decision to utilize them or not is made at the microlevel – depending on the type of intervention it could be ordered by administration of hospitals and infirmaries, laboratories or clinics, by doctors, and sometimes directly by individuals/patients! Coordinated measures to optimize the progress should be well-focused on solving the accumulating problems in healthcare and the concomitant economic burden that societies across the globe are facing more and more. PPPM offers great and real promise for the future, and next generations will speak about the XXI century as a time, when healthcare services became predictive and preventive, and its outcomes – secured and guaranteed!