Managed Healthcare Executive August 10, 2021
Bridging the precision medicine gap.
The term “personalized medicine” was introduced more than 20 years ago in a brief article published in The Wall Street Journal titled, “New Era of Personalized Medicine: Targeting Drugs for Each Unique Genetic Profile”. The same article was reprinted in The Oncologist shortly after, and the way we talk about and practice medicine forever changed.
Not surprisingly, the term was quickly interpreted to mean the future of medicine would be tailored to us as individuals, with all of the unique genetic and biological heterogeneity that’s implied. The field of pharmacogenomics was born, and the promise of genomic sequencing enabling the prescription of unique treatments matched to a patient’s DNA was the goal.
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