News-Medical.Net October 4, 2024
Understanding rare diseases
Precision medicine and rare diseases
Genetic and molecular profiling
Tailoring treatments for rare diseases
Challenges and future directions
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Understanding rare diseases
Rare diseases affect less than 5 people out of 10,000. However, this still amounts to about 7% of the world’s population, with over 10,000 such conditions. Almost all are genetic in origin, with a few being autoimmune or infectious.
Most such patients undergo a diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey involving extensive and prolonged testing and multiple consultations. Only about 5% of rare diseases are currently treatable, the rest being “orphan diseases.” However, precision medicine could provide an answer to this problem.
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Precision medicine and rare diseases
Precision medicine may be described as treatment tailored to the individual...
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