Theranostics
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Theranostics (a portmanteau of therapeutics and diagnostics) is a proposed process of diagnostic therapy for individual patients - to test them for possible reaction to taking a new medication and to tailor a treatment for them based on the test results.
Theranostics would be a key part of personalized medicine and require considerable advances in predictive medicine.
Theranostics would also rely on pharmacogenomics, drug discovery using genetics, molecular biology and microarray chips technology.
[edit] Further reading
- Picard FJ, Bergeron MG., Rapid molecular theranostics in infectious diseases, Drug Discov Today. 2002 Nov 1;7(21):1092-101.
- Hooper JW., The genetic map to theranostics, MLO Med Lab Obs. 2006 Jun;38(6):22-3, 25.
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