Executive Briefing: Biomarkers and beyond
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
In recent years, much has been written about the concept of personalised medicine, which has been defined as "a form of medicine that uses information about a person's genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose and treat disease". As far as drug treatment is concerned, this means that for each individual patient there will be an optimum drug that, administered in an appropriate dose and at the right time, will lead to the best possible outcome.