Precision medicine is a medical model that proposes the customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, treatments, practices, or products being tailored to the individual patient. The cost may be limiting factor for the less privilege.

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Spending some money on precision diagnostic test can be long run treatments for the person's future health and better quality of life. Whereas conventional diagnostic methods is like searching for something in pile of stuffs which is time consuming, seems to be costlier.

Thus according to my perspective,if a person have their DNA tested these results can guide the medical decisions for them in rest of life. This is helpful in emergency medical treatment, deadly disease treatment, rare or few side effects etc...so it is very important to be aware of precision medicine.

But this would take 1 more or atleast half a decade to increase in the medical practice and spread the awareness to all of them equally and understandably not just the rich and poor. Even many rich are not aware or ready to rely on precision medicine.Though now it may seem like health inequality it is expected that it's going to be cheaper, maybe soon will reach even layman and should be included in many health centres.

Nanotech is future.

Thank you all, for your informative posts.

Precision medicine is costly and until costs are elimated in medicine, will be either:

1. Will be availabite to those who can pay for;

2. Will be available to those approached to become subjects of research projects of those who will absorb the costs of the research they want done for a variety of purposes.

Precision medicine is a medical model that proposes the customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, treatments, practices, or products being tailored to the individual patient. The cost may be limiting factor for the less privilege.

Of course, the rich will benefit from it more.

Some diseases of genetic origin are heterogenous in nature. They can never be perfectly managed except through personalized medicine. This is happening in diseases like breast cancer currently. However, the it does not come to full enjoyment without paying a price; the cost is discouraging. Therefore, as it benefits the poor, it is still a demerit going by the cost.

No. Sorry

At the moment, it's only for the "rich".

Therefore, it helps to increase the disparity between "social classes".

In the future ... difficult to predict, because everything will depend on the eventual "collapse" of the current global financial system (on which the relative precision medicine depends).

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l1022/rr

This is my rapid response to an article at BMJ . It gives the astonishing figures for homeless people in the world and those who have no decent accommodation facilities arounnd the world.

The brief answer for the topic is obviously No.

Benefits the rich !!!! It is meant for them , personalized and to the individual ...

We know that medicines and dosages have to customized so that makes less generic ...May be if well documented it can be narrowed down and made universal

ان الطب امر يحتاج إليه المجتمع مادام متصلا بالانسانية وإن التباين الطبقي بين أفراد المجتمع من الأغنياء والفقراء يؤثر على اسلوب الاتجاه إلى الطب فقد يتجه بعض محدودي الدخل إلى الطب البديل أي طب الاعشاب لكونه أقل كلفة من مراجعة الأطباء وصرف الأدوية

"Precision Medicine uses person's genetics, environment, and lifestyle information to for preventing or treating disease."

It's science or pseudoscience, or just in Research stage.

I think it's the time for a international criterion for the confirmed DNA test and treatment to guide clinical diagnosis and treatment.

I strongly oppose that some researching DNA institutions deceive and intimidate patients into doing uncertain accurate DNA tests in order to collect blood from the patients with special diseases, and the patient has to charge high fees for the test at the same time.

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One patient gave birth to a fetus with genetic disease, and her doctor asked her to have a very expensive DNA test to make sure the fetus was normal after the second pregnancy, but still gave birth to a fetus with the same problem. (I read the report one or two years )so I can't remember the details.

On this matter, the most pitiful is the poor cancer patient.

I really want to know:

(1) A cancer patient must do a DNA test to determine the most effective anticancer drugs, especially targeted drugs?

(2)After radical surgery, especially after 6 monthes chemotherapy, the blood still can be used for the DNA test. (3)with which way match a DNA with a chemotherapy drug?

Kindly see the attachments!!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131579/

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1579

https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/23/4/787/2198723

The issues of precision medicine often have profound religious consequences for the patient, the patient’s family, and the physician.

Accurate medicine, also known as personal medicine, uses individual patient information, along with highly specific clinical information about the composition of disease, to design the method of prevention and treatment according to the needs of the patient, to serve everyone, and to increase the ability to provide accurate medicine at an accelerated pace. .

Interesting! Following answers.

Precision medicine based upon molecular testing is heralded as a revolution in how cancer is prevented, diagnosed, and treated.

But its costs are very high.

"A personal medicine, according highly accurate personal clinical information for a personal treatment"

Yes, this kind of treatment and drug really exist. That is traditional Chinese medicine.

But it's not the modern science western medicine.Any western medicine including chemotherapy drugs must be effective to most population can be used to clinical treatment.

Is there any medical detecting instrument has personal blood testing standard values. Molecular test need standard values.

Precision medicine is medicine, it is nothing to do with rich or poor,it will definitely benefit both rich and poor around the globe equally without any doubt,confusion

"precision medicine is more effective in reducing tumors and slowing growth of cancer. Accurate medicine in treatment depends on targeting biological markers on patient tumors to determine appropriate medication for treatment."

I agree the view.

It can be accurate to a class of tumor cells.

Blood culture plus antibiotic sensitivity determine the most suitable antibiotic. If there's this kind of effective way for cancer, even it is extremely expensive it should have national or international certification .

Medicine that is accurate to a person is impossible to exist and impossible to develop.

A good headline to follow the answers

I think it is costly so it is more beneficial for rich one

Colleagues have mentioned both “Equally beneficial to both Rosh and poor “, as well as it benefit the rich. I think it all depend on time and space, meaning later on with full infusion of this innovation both rich and poor will benefit. Initially, perhaps it will increase disparity.

Initially rich people followed by poor in the long run.

The trickle down to poor is possible but not guaranteed. Most poor will not be able to afford the tests needed for precision medicine and even access to medical.

In an ideal world it should benefit both. In the real world, due to differential access to health care among other things it is likely that the rich would benefit more.

Precision medicine: yes it benefit both rich and poor around the globe

Thank you colleagues. I have referenced this in my blog post at. https://jphmpdirect.com/2019/08/15/diversifying-data-precision-medicine-approach/