Personalised Medicine: The Way of the Future?

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Hostility to vaccination worldwide • Vaccination programs are in profound trouble: US and UK campaigns against MMR vaccine. • India: reaction against vaccination of young girls against the human papillomavirus implicated in cervical cancer. • Muslim areas of northern Nigeria, which accounts for about 45% of polio cases worldwide: WHO polio vaccination campaign was boycotted as Western plot to spread HIV and AIDS through adulterated injections.
2. Economic and ethical questions • Gene-specific drugs will probably be very expensive because of small market (e.g. Xalkori for lung cancer, price $115,200 p.a.) • If patients who can benefit will be minority, would it be fair to devote majority of our scarce resources to them? Not just rhetorical question.
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Page 3 and 4: Francis Collins, The Language of Li
Page 5 and 6: 1. What’s the evidence, past and
Page 7 and 8: A necessary reality check • Curre
Page 9 and 10: Example of PM from cancer care •
Page 11 and 12: Non-pharmacogenetic success • Con
Page 13: Me vs. We Medicine • Pharmacogene
Page 17 and 18: Stratified medicine in two senses?
Page 19 and 20: Four other explanations for PM •
Page 21 and 22: 2. Narcissism • Is it only a coin
Page 23 and 24: 4. Personal choice and autonomy •

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