Immunodiagnosis — the promise of personalized immunotherapy

pharmacogenetics, the promise of translating personalized medicine into clinical pediatrics

(R)Evolutionary therapy: the potential of immunotherapy to fulfill the promise of personalized cancer treatment.

Since the millennium, personalized medicine has been at the forefront of therapeutic endeavors in medical oncology. The latest technology has given researchers the ability to define cancer at its molecular core. This has led to the development of "targeted therapies," designed to eliminate driver mutations while leaving healthy cells unscathed. Unfortunately, more than 10 years into the targete...

Pharmacogenomics : The Promise of Personalized Medicine

Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics deal with the genetic basis underlying variable drug response in individual patients. The traditional pharmacogenetic approach relies on studying sequence variations in candidate genes suspected of affecting drug response. On the other hand, pharmacogenomic studies encompass the sum of all genes, i.e., the genome. Numerous genes may play a role in drug resp...

Realizing the promise of personalized medicine.

Scientific advances have begun to give doctors the power to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers therapies. Aspinall, the president of Genzyme Genetics, and Hamermesh, chair of a Harvard Business Scho...

Renal cancer biomarkers: the promise of personalized care

Significant advances in our understanding of the biology of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have been achieved in recent years. These insights have led to the introduction of novel targeted therapies, revolutionising the management of patients with advanced disease. Nevertheless, there are still no biomarkers in routine clinical use in RCC. Tools used routinely to determine prognosis have not change...