Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics

Ethics of Personalized Medicine

When women were given inaccurate information about their risk of breast or ovarian cancer as a result of some laboratory tests, the ethics of personalised care came into question. Ethics concerns can also be raised with the holding of human material for scientific research, not just with using genetic information. The area of medicine known as personalised medicine bases a patient's treatment and prognosis on his genes. Universities have not set strict guidelines, therefore a variety of tests and kits are valid for some questionable biomarkers. Recent genetic research reveals the differences and similarities between people and their disorders.