Personalized Medicine: Oncogenetics October 12, 2007

I’m back again to keep you up-to-date in this emerging field of medicine. I thought I should dedicate a whole blog carnival to this topic, but I still don’t have enough time for this. So here is a selection of blogposts about individualized medicine. Oncogenetics has already been centralised around personalization, but according to these articles, plenty of improvements are going to be introduced in the near future:

• Personalized Oncogenetics/Oncology (Cancer Genetics): A good summary of research approaches in cancer that lead individualized cancer management.

• New ‘Seed’ Therapy Helps Pinpoint Breast Tumors with More Accuracy (Sushi Tuesday)

• The Ultimate in Personalized Medicine and (For Now) Hype (Biotech Blitz):

For many people in medicine, the Holy Grail is the card or chip carried by a patient with the person’s genetic code. That code would tell them what drugs and other treatments would work best for a specific illness. This vision is driving long-term plans for many companies and, unfortunately, these companies are beginning to ask investors for money.

• Yet Another Far Out Sequencing Idea? (Omics! Omics!):

Another little-known company, this time English, has thrown its hat into the Archon X-Prize ring… $500/genome in hours is the target throughput (no mention of error bars on those estimates!)

• A Personalized Supplement Based on Your DNA (Balanced Health and Nutrition):

GenoTrim tests five genes that influence weight…

• Medical Records and the VA: Cancer, Laptops, Babies and Bath Water (PredictER):

In Wednesday’s New York Times, Gina Kolata reports on the Veteran Administration’s new national directive which requires states to agree to conditions prior to acquiring cancer patients’ personal information and health records.

• Oracle Openworld 2007- Personalized Genomics session (Microarray Blog): Advances in genetic information and laboratory technologies mean new ways to diagnose disease and determine patient risk.

Follow Scienceroll for more about personalized medicine!

• Personalized Medicine: Who would you like to have access to your genetic test results?
• Personalized Medicine: The Future is Now
• Personalized Medicine: Major steps on the way
• Please Donate: My dream is to have my genome sequenced!
• Personalized Genetics: DNA 2.0 and the best thoughts on our genome
• Individualized Genomics: Update
• Personalized Medicine: being up-to-date
• Science Magazine: The future of personalized genomics