Personalized Medicine
Personalized Medicine products provide valuable information for you and your doctor to customize medical management plans just for you. With a treatment plan tailored to your individual characteristics, you have the best chance of getting the right treatment at the right levels to improve effectiveness of your treatment and avoid unwanted side effects.
Just like we all have looks, tastes, needs and habits that are different from those of our friends and even family, our healthcare needs are unique to each of us as well. We all know people who have bad reactions to certain medications, or swear by a drug which seems to have no effect on other people. That is because we are as different on the inside as we are on the outside. Until now, medicine has been practiced in many ways as a “one size fits all” approach or through a strategy of trial and error. Myriad is developing personalized medicine products that can analyze your personal characteristics and help you and your doctor to tailor your healthcare to your personal needs. With personalized medicine you can better avoid the time, expense and frustration of getting a treatment that doesn’t work, or makes your condition worse.
Myriad’s personalized medicine products have been designed to help cancer patients and their doctors individualize treatments to achieve improved response to therapy and less toxicity. In cancer, the treatment plans usually follow standard pathways that are adjusted for patients usually only if there is a problem like a bad drug reaction or no response to therapy. These events happen because each of us is different and will have a different response to a therapy. Myriad’s products help doctors select and optimize the chemotherapy drug treatment for each patient to help lower toxicity while improving tumor response. These breakthrough products are designed to improve a person’s cancer care, reduce healthcare costs, and, most importantly, save lives.
Related Links
Find a Doctor/Provider - Search for a doctor/provider by state.
Cancer History Guide - An online family cancer history tool.
Hereditary Cancer Quiz - Check your hereditary cancer risk.
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