Genetics & Genomics

Personalized Medicine: a Challenging Revolution in Healthcare

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 10th, 2008

Personalized medicine, which uses genetic information to tailor treatments to specific individuals, is a revolutionary healthcare option, filled with potential but also containing serious challenges for average patients, writes Beryl Lieff Benderly, in an Insighter piece posted on www.fdli.org, the website of the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI).

In the Insighter piece, Personalized Medicine: A Challenging Revolution in Healthcare, Nina Scribanu, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the division of genetics at the Georgetown University Medical Center, tells FDLI that much work remains in the development of personalized medicine before patients can...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-10)

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