What is Personalized Medicine?
Personalized Medicine (Personal Genome) is an extension of traditional approaches using genetic information to understand, to prevent or to treat more specifically some chronic illnesses. Personal PharmacoGenomics tests for detection of variation in the way an individual metabolizes various pharmaceuticals. Personal Genome Test will identify your health risks and drug response in order to personalize your own medical care, take preventative steps to improve your health and extend your life. Personalized medicine helps to avoid hazards based on familial history, environmental influences, and genetic variation.
Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing the systematic use of information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient’s preventative and therapeutic care. Personalized medicine is often defined as “the right treatment for the right person at the right time.”
It does not literally mean the creation of drugs or medical devices that are unique to a patient but rather the ability to classify individuals into subpopulations that differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease or their response to a specific treatment. Preventive or therapeutic interventions can then be concentrated on those who will benefit, sparing expense and side effects for those who will not. [Extracts from President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) “Priorities for Personalized Medicine” September 2008]
Gene Trek Genomics offers screening for a large number of mutations and SNPs-by offering a comprehensive panel of CLIA, GINA, and HIPAA accredited genomic testing which screens for close to 100 potential medical conditions, such as Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Alzheimer Disease, Cardiovascular diseases, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Type 1 and 2 Diabetes, and many more, for an affordable low price. We scan your DNA for thousands of genetic markers that indicate your risk for adverse health conditions. Some of the markers have been researched more thoroughly than others, but scientific knowledge advances rapidly. While we provide a thorough risk assessment based on the science that is currently available, more tests are always just over the horizon. After your DNA is tested, you will have the option of having your DNA sample secured and stored Just in case to be re-tested down the road as new science emerges. As new prevention measures, drug reactions (positive or adverse) and risks based on your specific genes are scientifically validated, you’ll be the first to know!
