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Precision And Predictive Medicine

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PRECISION AND PREDICTIVE MEDICINE INTRODUCTION Precision and Predictive Medicine is defined as following  “Emerging approach for the treatment and prevention from the disease that take into importance to individual variability in environment, genes, and lifestyle for each person”.  POTENTIAL BENEFITS  ➢ ➢ ➢ The potential benefits of Precision and Predictive Medicine are following Precision and Predictive Medicine enhances the ability of the healthcare professionals to predict about the treatment that suit best for the specific patient. It provides better understanding to the healthcare professionals about the underlying mechanism through which different diseases occurred. It enhances the approaches related to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of various diseases (Khoury, 2012) TREATMENT  Precision and Predictive Medicine is used for the treatment of following diseases HIV Skin cancer (melanoma) Lung cancer Rare childhood illnesses Colon cancer Pancreatic cancer Cystic fibrosis BLOOD TRANSFUSION  It has been determined from the research that the blood transfusion is also a significant example of Precision and Predictive Medicine. When the patient receive blood from other person, it is not at random. The blood of patient should be matched to the blood type of sample for transfusion. Precision and Predictive Medicine is considered as more about genetics that also give importance to some of the environmental factors that are affe ...
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