12.01.2017 | Editorial Commentary
Personalized medicine: a new option for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging in the third millennium
Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 4/2017
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“It’s more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has,” stated Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 – c. 370 BC). This sentence of the father of modern medicine, which is based on observation of clinical signs and rational conclusions, is truly actual and it can be considered the manifesto of personalized (or precision) medicine (PM). According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, PM is the use of diagnostic and screening methods to better manage the individual patient’s disease or predisposition toward a disease; it will enable risk assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy specifically tailored to the unique characteristics of the individual, thus enhancing the quality of life and public health. …Anzeige