Pharmacogenomics: Convergence of Pharmacology & Genomics
Personalized medicine can be used to learn about a person's genetic makeup and to unravel the biology of their tumor. Using this information, doctors hope to identify prevention, screening, and treatment strategies that may be more effective and cause fewer side effects than would be expected with standard treatments. By performing more genetic tests and analysis, doctors may customize treatment to each patient's needs. Creating a personalized cancer screening and treatment plan includes: Determining the chances that a person will develop cancer and selecting screening strategies to lower the risk, Matching patients with treatments that are more likely to be effective and cause fewer side effects, Predicting the risk of recurrence (return of cancer)
- Predictive computational phenotyping
- New era of Proteomics
- Drug metabolizing enzymes
- Protein microarrays for personalized medicine
- Genotyping & genome sequencing