Essential elements of personalized medicine.

@article{Burke2014EssentialEO,
  title={Essential elements of personalized medicine.},
  author={Wylie Burke and Susan Brown Trinidad and Nancy Anne Press},
  journal={Urologic oncology},
  year={2014},
  volume={32 2},
  pages={
          193-7
        }
}

• Wylie Burke, Susan Brown Trinidad, Nancy Anne Press
• Published in Urologic oncology 2014
• DOI:10.1016/j.urolonc.2013.09.002

OBJECTIVES Genomic information has been promoted as the basis for "personalized" health care. We considered the benefits provided by genomic testing in context of the concept of personalized medicine. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated current and potential uses of genomic testing in health care, using prostate cancer as an example, and considered their implications for individualizing or otherwise improving health care. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Personalized medicine is most accurately seen… CONTINUE READING

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