Current best practices and rationalistic perspectives in causation-based prevention, early detection and multidisciplinary treatment of breast and gastric cancer


Gastric & Breast Cancer e-journal
DOI: 10.2122/gbc.2008.0088


PERSPECTIVE

Personal genomics and practical personalized medicine – Overcoming challenges?

Dimitrios H. Roukos, MD
Affiliation: Department of Surgery, Surgical Oncology Research Unit, Ioannina University, School of Medicine, Ioannina, 451 10 Greece.
E-mail: droukos@cc.uoi.gr


Personal genomics represent the most rational scientific way to achieve the goal of the century: Personalized medicine. Three more entirely sequenced genomes are here. The first one was for a cancer patient, the other first one was for an Asian and the last first one was for an African individual. These three whole-genome sequencing together with an accompanied Editorial and several selection opinion articles have been published in the Nov. 6, 2008 issue of Nature [1, 2].

Online ISSN : 1109 - 7647
   Print ISSN : 1109 - 7655

We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the HON Foundation. Click to verify. We subscribe to the HONcode principles. Verify here.
please, read our policy about privacy and confidentiality of information and transparency of sponsorship

last update: 3 February 2004