Main description:

The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide. Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and will affect people worldwide Reviews precision medicine around the world, including the US, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe, and Latin America Discusses a number of diseases areas cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious disease, pain, immunology, rare diseases Includes information and quotes from over 100 interviews with key industry experts in biotech, pharma, informatics, diagnostics, health providers, advocacy groups, and more. Includes stories illustrating current issues and future promises in precision medicine for a human touch

Contents:

Acknowledgments Introduction Methodology About the Author Part 1: The History Chapter 1: The Right Drug, the Right Patient, the Right Time: Foundations of Precision Medicine Chapter 2: Decision Making Machines: Diagnostics in Precision Medicine Chapter 3: Precision Medicine Around the World: Europe Part 2: The Present Chapter 4: Our Reality Today: The Patient Journey in Precision Medicine Chapter 5: Toward the Day We Just Call It "Medicine": Access to Precision Medicine Chapter 6: Precision Medicine Around the World: Japan Chapter 7: Shifting Rules: Regulatory and Reimbursement Chapter 8: Precision Medicine Around the World: Latin America Chapter 9: Patients as the Poorest Princesses: Supportive Care Chapter 10: Informatics Under the Hood: Data in Precision Medicine Chapter 11: Precision Medicine Around the World: India Part 3: The Future Chapter 12: A Personalized Stomach: Precision Medicine beyond Cancer Chapter 13: Consumer is King: Consumer Applications of Precision Medicine Chapter 14: Precision Medicine Around the World: The Middle East Chapter 15: Sci-Fi Potential: CRISPR as the Next Novel Frontier in Precision Medicine Chapter 16: Precision Medicine Around the World: China Chapter 17: A New Hope: The Future of Precision Medicine Afterword Index