Advancing healthcare through personalized medicine /
[Book]
Priya Hays.
Boca Raton :
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2017]
xiv, 167 pages :
color illustrations ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : biomedical innovation and policy in the 21st century -- The rise of genomics and personalized medicine -- Patient narratives : personalized medicine in the field -- Alliances : knowledge infrastructures and precision medicine -- Great strides in precision medicine : personalized oncology and molecular diagnostics -- Personalized medicine's impact on disease -- The genome in the clinic : diagnosis, treatment and education -- A new set of clinical tools for physicians -- The regulatory landscape -- Translational personalized medicine : molecular profiling, druggable targets and clinical -- Genomic medicine -- The economics of personalized medicine -- Moral and ethical issues : claims, consequences, and caveats -- Conclusion.