Personalized Medicine - The New Era of Health Care

Recent lackluster health scenario in India has called for actions. Doctors have faced wrath from patients and family members. But there is a basic misconception. Just like the aphorism: a captain is only as good as his crew, so too doctors have been handicapped by inaccurate diagnostic results. There is a glimmer of hope though, in the form of personalized medicine.

What is personalized medicine?

We know that just like the thumb prints, genetic characteristics of the human beings are different from each other. Every human body responds differently to the same drug. In health care "one size fits all" is an old school thinking now. Customization of healthcare is needed to get the maximum results. And to achieve this aim, the concept of personalized medicine was invented. The ultimate target of personalized medicine is to treat each and every patient as individual and to provide the tailor made medicine to get effective results quickly.

How it works?

In traditional health care scenario, the doctor treats the ailments on the basis of symptoms, clinical analysis, pathological diagnosis and family as well as medical history. Usually, the treatment starts only after appearance of the symptom in the human body. Usually there are set protocols for treating ailments, including surgical, medical, radiological intervention strategies.

Medicines are given in defined dosage, sometimes calculating the body mass, weight parameters etc. However, even though medicines come out in the market after rigorous statistical analysis on cohorts of patients, clinicians are helpless in cases the medicine does not work. Personalized medicine helps the doctors in pre-determining if a certain medicine is going to work or not; in other words define the efficacy of treatment and define endpoint of the disease.

The analysis of environment, regular diet, lifestyle, stress level, inherited genetic makeup, cellular behavior of a damaged cell from its intracellular signaling to cellular cross talk triggered by the gene activation help to identify the performance potential of a therapy regime. A gene mutation can lead to higher unnecessary activation levels or inhibition of a normal signaling in a cell and this can lead to impaired drug function.

Therefore personalized medicine is looked at from two levels (i) genotypic level where the gene induced changes are accounted for and (ii) phenotypic level where the cellular behavior of a cell is looked at before deciding on a therapy regime. Personalized medicine therefore helps one to have a better treatment leading to reduction of overuse of drugs or preventing underuse of therapy. At an inheritance level, It also helps to determine if anyone is prone or susceptible to a disease.

Personalized medicine and Oncology:

Even though personalized medicine can be utilized in various infectious or systemic diseases; but oncology is the zone where it can transform the lives of the patients. The genetic makeup and phenotypic characteristic of cancer vary from person to person. That's why every cancer patient responds to treatments differently. With the help of molecular analysis, the patients can be stratified and treated accordingly. In today's scenario clinicians routinely use molecular tools to thermostatically identify drug performances in breast, ovarian, colon, lung, head and neck and hematological oncology.

Present Scenario

Every year pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars in clinical trials before launching drugs. Molecular analysis and diagnosis not only saves the money but also helps them to focus on the research for betterment in healthcare.

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FDA and FBI Raid Cancer Cure Center and Steal Medicine from Dying Patients

BobTuskin.com
By Sam Bass

My wife, Yvonne, has been given two death sentences. No, she is not a criminal nor a terrorist. Let me tell you her story.

Six years ago she was diagnosed with melanoma cancer. After three surgeries the doctors felt that they had removed all the cancer. Almost one year later the cancer returned with fast growing tumors on her back. Again, the Doctor wanted to do surgery and treat her using interferon. His prognosis was that she had six months before she would die (DEATH SENTENCE # 1) and that the interferon “might” give her a 10% chance of survival. But, if she did the interferon, she would feel like she had the flu for a year and it would further weaken her immune system. Yvonne asked the Doctor directly if he were in her shoes would he take the course of action he was recommending. After much silence he said, “No.”

With much prayer and research, we choose an alternative route. She changed her diet radically. My children and I started massaging her back almost daily with essential oils. Through guidance from a Natural Phatic Doctor we begin supplementing her diet.

In a matter of months the tumors on her back begin to decrease in size and then suddenly disappeared. Her oncologist did not believe that the cancer was gone and had a scan done which verified she was cancer free. DEATH SENTENCE # 1 OVERTURNED.

Five years later the cancer returned with a violent aggression unlike before. She lost over 80 pounds in less than six months, could not keep any food down, and had to sleep setting up in a chair. Knowing that we had defeated cancer once before, we were confident we could defeat it again. Thus, after much prayer and research, and due to the fast growth of these new tumors, we decided to seek an alternative clinic that would help oversee her treatment.

We chose Camelot Cancer Care in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Camelot has been treating cancer patients for over ten years with a verified 60% decrease in the SUV’s in tumors on their patients PET scans after receiving their treatment. An oncologist who had personal knowledge of Camelot’s effectiveness felt that it would be the better course, even over normal medical treatments.

Their treatment consist of 20 rounds of B-17 (known as laetrile), vitamin C, and DMSO administered intravenously. The first eight treatments must be done in the clinic and are overseen by a medical staff. The remaining eight can be self-administered at home with weekly blood test to insure no adverse effects from the treatments.

On the eight day (April 23, 2013) Yvonne was showing great signs that the treatments were working. She could sleep laying down, she was keeping most of her food down, she had an increase in her appetite, and energy. We were about to leave the clinic with the remaining twelve treatments in my hands when the FBI and FDA raided the clinic in a gestapo like manner claiming that the use of B-17 was illegal and that Camelot was committing fraud. They made the staff remove all the patients off their IVs and told us all to leave.

I set the box of prefilled IV bags down to put my coat own. As I reached for the box an FBI agent slammed his hand down on the box and told me, “You cannot take that with you.” I informed him that I had paid $13,000 for it, thus it was mine and that it was necessary for my wife’s continuing successful battle with her cancer. He told me he would arrest me if I picked it up again. I told him to read me my rights which he declined.

They keep us there for another two hours under constant arm guard. I was not allowed to go to the restroom without removing my coat and empting all my pockets. An agent led us to believe that we might be able to take our property home with us just to tell us two hours later that the Attorney General’s lawyer said we could not have it.

By the FBI/FDA and Attorney General’s action they handed my wife DEATH SENTENCE #2. Because the FBI/FDA sealed the bank accounts of Camelot and it’s owner, we cannot recover the $13,000 which we borrowed. This has limited us to seeking other alternative treatments elsewhere.

WE are now put in a position that we must self-treat Yvonne. DO NOT FRET! We are confident in our God that He is leading us and with the support of friends, our church, and many strangers we will defeat this death sentence. I believe that we will show that our rogue government cannot remove our right to choose how we fight this cancer and that alternative treatments can and are successful.

WE will see this DEATH SENTENCE #2 OVERTUNED.

In you would like to know more about this or help financially go to:

http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/help-a-wonderful-mom-and-friend-naturally-finish-off-her-battle-with-cancer-/52172/update/37188

or a TV news story see:

http://www.newson6.com/story/22057839/tulsa-cancer-clinic-temporarily-shut-down-amid-federal-investigation

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