Personalized Medicine
What is Personalized Medicine？
Have you ever heard of "personalized medicine"? Personalized medicine is the practice of treating patients with the same disease according to the characteristics of their constitution and disease. It is sometimes called custom-made medicine, tailor-made medicine, or precision medicine. Until now,
patients with the same disease were given the same treatment, but as research progressed, it became clear that even with the same disease, there were individual differences in the effectiveness of treatment depending on the patient's constitution and genes. This is where personalized medicine was born!
Advantages of Personalized Medicine
In what ways do you think personalized medicine is attracting attention? Let's take a look at the advantages of personalized medicine.
| Merit 1 | Patients can choose the best treatment method for them. |
| Merit 2 | Side effects can be greatly reduced. |
| Merit 3 | Efficient treatment enables a quick return to society and reduces the burden on the family and others. |
Since personalized medicine examines the constitution and genes of each patient, it is possible to tailor treatment to each patient and avoid treatments that are thought to have significant side effects. In this way, treatment that is considered ineffective can be avoided, allowing for a quick return to society.
Disadvantages
Although it seems like a very wonderful treatment and there are no disadvantages, personalized medicine also has its disadvantages.
| Demerit 1 | In some cases, therapeutic drugs have not been developed. |
| Demerit 2 | High cost of testing. |
| Demerit 3 | It is difficult to administer drugs to patients who need immediate treatment because the tests take time. |
These are some of the problems.
n personalized medicine, treatment is tailored to each patient's constitution and genes,
so if there are 10 patients, there will be 10 different treatments. Therefore, there are cases where no cure has been developed.
Solving such problems is what is expected of personalized medicine.
