Personalized, precision, P4, or stratified medicine is understood as a medical approach in which patients are stratified based on their disease subtype, risk, prognosis, or treatment response using specialized diagnostic tests. The key idea is to base medical decisions on individual patient characteristics, including molecular and behavioral biomarkers, rather than on population averages. Personalized medicine is deeply connected to and dependent on data science, specifically machine learning (often named Artificial Intelligence in the mainstream media). While during recent years there has been a lot of enthusiasm about the potential of ‘big data’ and machine learning-based solutions, there exist only few examples that impact current clinical practice. The lack of impact on clinical practice can largely be attributed to insufficient performance of predictive models, difficulties to interpret complex model predictions, and lack of validation via prospective clinical trials that demonstrate a clear benefit compared to the standard of care. In this presentation, have reviewed the potential of state-of-the-art data science approaches for personalized medicine, discuss open challenges, and highlight directions that may help to overcome them in the future
8. CANCER HAS
REDEFINED IN
LAST 20
YEARS
This redefinition has been
driven by improved biological
understanding
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9. SO HAS BEEN
THE
TREATMENT
OPTIONS
This change has been driven by
improved technology-
sequencing, imaging, nanotech,
drug developing, computing
and availability of data about
patient response to therapy
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17. • Knowledge of inter-individual differences wrt metabolism as old as civilization:
6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that ingestion of fava beans is harmful to
some individuals yet innocuous to others
• Finding the optimal treatment for every patient is as
old as medicine: differential diagnosis
• Tailoring treatments to drug-specific test results is nothing new. Example:
antibiotics
• Gram-positive bacteria: e.g. penicillin derivatives
• Gram-negative bacteria: e.g. aminoglycosides
• M. tuberculosis: isoniazid/rifampin/pyrazinamide
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE : IS IT A NEW CONCEPT?
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