The Case for Personalized Medicine

The case for personalized medicine.

Personalized medicine may be considered an extension of traditional approaches to understanding and treating disease, but with greater precision. Physicians may now use a patient's genetic variation or expression profile as well as protein and metabolic markers to guide the selection of certain drugs or treatments. In many cases, the information provided by molecular markers predicts susceptibi...

The outlook for personalized medicine

the test for adverse selection in life insurance market: the case of mellat insurance company

انتخاب نامساعد یکی از مشکلات اساسی در صنعت بیمه است. که ابتدا در سال 1960، توسط روتشیلد واستیگلیتز مورد بحث ومطالعه قرار گرفت ازآن موقع تاکنون بسیاری از پژوهشگران مدل های مختلفی را برای تجزیه و تحلیل تقاضا برای صنعت بیمه عمر که تماما ناشی از عدم قطعیت در این صنعت میباشد انجام داده اند .وهدف از آن پیدا کردن شرایطی است که تحت آن شرایط انتخاب یا کنار گذاشتن یک بیمه گزار به نفع و یا زیان شرکت بیمه ...

Case Studies in Personalized Cancer Medicine

A 24-year-old man presented with a recurrent epithelioid angiomyolipoma (EAML) [ 1 ] . Five months earlier, the patient had undergone a right radical nephrectomy with removal of a 24-cm EAML that ruptured during surgery. At the time of presentation, there was a 20-cm tumor with evidence of intratumoral hemorrhage (Fig. 8.1 ), and the patient’s hemoglobin was 3.8 g/dL. After transfusion, arteria...

The importance of personalized medicine in urological cancers

Personalized medicine (PM) refers to a set of medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic activities and approaches based on the specific characteristics of each patient chr ('39')s genome. In fact, individual-centered medical approaches are based on personalization, meaning that each person chr ('39')s gene sequence and polymorphisms (SNPs) are different and explain the different courses of urologica...