Is Precision Medicine is the next trend in healthcare innovation?

 


The year ago, has shown exceptional advances in healthcare. The approval development and mass administration of multiple COVID-19 vaccines have not only proved that advances in healthcare can occur fast, but they can also have huge impacts on daily life.

The next breakthrough in healthcare may not be a same size to fits-all solution. Recent and persist research from pharmaceutical companies points to a generation of new personalized medicine to treat and maybe cure some of the world’s most infamous diseases.

Precision medicine is a novel approach to the treatment and prevention of diseases. Using a patient’s full medical profile from medical history, genetic data, environmental factors, and even lifestyle precision medicine aims to create a customized and unique treatment and prevention protocol for every patient. There is a cause that precision medicine is sometimes known as personalized medicine. The creation of a unique treatment requires access to virtually all of the personal medical data of an individual.

The   precision medicine concept is not new, but new technology and recent advances are allowing the pace of research to accelerate. Categorizing a unique treatment for every individual will likely rest on having vast sums of data to analyze in order to create many different treatment options for the same disease.  Artificial intelligence (AI), recent advances and genomic testing are providing a huge volume of medical data that previously could not be used efficiently toward precision medicine research. The scale of massive available data combined with advances in computing power and AI may allow researchers to work with an ever-expanding database of medical information in order to develop personalized therapeutics.

Researchers are now working to use the same mRNA technology for oncology, which means mRNA-based vaccines for cancer could be used to target and destroy existing tumor cells, as opposed to typical vaccines that act as prevention methods. In other words, mRNA vaccines for cancer are therapeutic, not preventative. In fact, researchers had been working to develop mRNA vaccines for cancer and other diseases long before the technology was used to fight COVID-19. The wide spread use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines over the past year has proven that mRNA technology can be effective and safe  developing mRNA vaccines for many types of cancer, including melanoma, breast cancer and lung cancer. These mRNA cancer vaccines are designed to ideally alert a patient’s immune system to tumor cells so that the immune system will attack the tumor. Each mRNA cancer vaccine is personalized to an individual patient to provide this “biological software” to the patient’s immune system.

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