Cancer treatment is always believed to be a hard limit with drugs, chemotherapy, radiation and other difficult and painful methods of healing included. However, personal medicine is a new addition to the range of treatment options available for cancer.

1. Understanding The Future Of Cancer Treatment
Personalized Medicine Is A Good Choice

2. Cancer treatment is always believed to be a hard limit
with drugs, chemotherapy, radiation and other difficult
and painful methods of healing included.
However, personal medicine is a new addition to the
range of treatment options available for cancer.

3. What is Personal Medicine?
What does personal medicine
refer to or mean to you when
you hear the term for the first
time. Does it include a doctor
to greet you with a warm
smile or a caregiver to listen
to your grief? Does it involve a
few physicians who
understand your case right
from the beginning and the
treatments you’ve received till
now?

4. It is obvious cancer patients
want their doctors and
caregivers to understand
them, their disease, their
difficulties and their course of
life.
In the future, this feeling of
personal understanding is
likely to go deeper than
before, to help cancer
sufferers to combat the
disease and rise victorious. It
is not just a way to
combat, but conquer cancer.

5. Our chromosomes are the
instructions of our life.
Everything about our being –
our
bodies, built, organs, nerves,
cells, muscles and tissues are
coded in the DNA, which
differs from one person to
another.
Genes define who we are
and elaborates the factors
that make us individuals. We
understand that genes play a
crucial role in the diseases
that we usually suffer from.

6. While there are some genes making us resistant to
diseases, some others make us vulnerable. DNA codes
the body’s ability to fight as well as heal diseases or
injures. Hard wired and fixed in the chromosomes are
the life instructions that could make rugs work for
us, or simply fail, or produce severe side effects.
Thus, the human genetic coding is the key to diseases
and health.

7. Cancer is the result of damage
caused to our genes. The
disease occurs when the
genetic switches within the
genes controlling cell growth
starts malfunctioning.
If the growth gene should be
turned off, it automatically
turns on. If there is a genetic
switch designed for preventing
cancer development, it fails.
Cells that need to be at rest
start dividing, and tumor
forms.

8. The damaged growth
genes are known as
oncogenes. There are
three reasons for this
damage.
First of all, a person
may be born with
defective gene like
BCRA (gene
responsible for breast
cancer).

9. Secondly, exposure to
harmful environmental
toxins like smoking that
can damage genes.
Lastly, the genes start
wearing out and that
partially leads to
increased risk of cancer.

10. Medicine based on Genes
Personalized medicine is a medical care based on the
core. Medicine based on genes. This completely changes
how treatments will be given.
Today, physicians choose therapies depending on
research conducted on thousands of cases.

11. Doctors have limited ability to
adapt a therapy depending on
these differences.
Researchers are now working
towards the future where
people can get one blood test
done for complete analysis of
over 20,000 coding genes to
get the personal genetic
blueprint.
It is going to be a critical
information resource, defining
what diseases you could get
and take preventive
measures.