Personalized medicine: The best way of treatment.
Personalized medicine can also mean customized form of treatment for just one particular person, tho in medicine one size fits all is the method of most healthcare system practice before when you customize any form of medical treatment for a patient it is very important to take into consideration the person's lifestyle genetic makeup and environment because understanding those factors will help the doctor to develop a good treatment that will be effective which ranges from the type of drugs the patient will take to the dosage.
Factors for consideration.
A patient genomic will be sequence before customizing treatment for the patient medical doctors have the duty of finding out some specific genetic mutation that are responsible for the illness of the patient.
Doctors will have to delve into large study of protein because protein are the most function cells and through their reaction a scientist can detect the disease that will respond for treatment.
This is exactly what happens after a culture test drugs are prescribed according to the sensitivity of the result.
Also the study of metabolites is very vital before customizing treatment for a patient because metabolomic test shows how patient body metabolizes drugs also evaluation of microbiome is also done before recommendation or treatment of any inflammatory bowel disease.
To carry out the above mention procedures there is need for advanced technology life the next generation sequencing that sequences a whole genomes at lesser cost, CRISpR -casq that can modify DNA and get accurate genetic defects.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are also needed for analyzing complicated data sets.
How to apply customize medicine.
Not all health challenges requires personalized treatment but most delicate health challenges requires customized medicine, when it comes to cancer treatment oncologist target some specific cancer cells while prescribing for treatment based on where they cancer cells are found, a cardiologist also does some genetic screening and target specific cardiovascular diseases.
Pharmaco genomics which is the Field of studying how a patient response to drugs helps a doctor to know drugs that will be more effective for the patient friends in genes can affect the response of blood thinner.
Customize medicine is applied in treatment of rare disease like spinal muscular atrophic genetic disorder.
Advantages of personalized medicine.
There are so many benefits or advantages of personalized medicine, when treatment is customized it becomes more effective on the individual especially on health challenges like cancer that doesn't accept traditional treatment.
Customized medicine minimizes drug reaction but enhances safer treatment also it helps to prevent patient in contacting some type of diseases it also helps reduce try and error in treatment of patient.
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Challenges facing personalized medicine.
Personalized medicine has promising potentials but with some challenges like ethical and privacy concerns that comes up during the process of collecting genetic information of the patient, also the process of personalizing medications is very expensive and not everyone can afford it making it a challenging situation.
Data management is another challenge because much amount of data is generated by customizing a patient treatment.
It is not always easy to translate the findings into clinical practice it requires physicians to be more talented and trend in the interpretation of molecular and genetic data.
future prospect of customized medicine.
The future of customized medicine is promising because as technology advances it will help to improve personalized medicine more.
For example if a patient uses wearable mobile health devices this will help the patient to a more cautious of her health and also to monitor and manage the disease.
Also as machine learning and artificial intelligence advances it will help in improving the ability to create predictive models for diseases and treatment especially on complex data, global collaboration can as well help in faster discoveries of treatment.
conclusion.
Yes personalized medicine has his challenges like complexity in data, security concern and many more but it is a way to help patients get effective treatment and also enhance the healthcare system.
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