Personalised Medicine Approaches to Screening and Prevention. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gaitskell, Kezia
• Is Part Of: New bioethics. Volume 23:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 21
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: personalised medicine -- screening -- prevention -- risk reduction -- genetic testing -- epidemiology; Bioethics -- Periodicals; Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; 174.2
• DOI: 10.1080/20502877.2017.1314884
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2050-2877

Abstract

Abstract : One of the promised benefits of 'personalised' medicine is that it will have a positive impact on disease screening and prevention, by enabling more person-specific estimates of risk, and hence more personalised strategies for screening and risk reduction. This article summarises some of the areas in which these approaches are already being implemented, but also outlines some of the potential difficulties and limitations — and challenges the assumption that 'personalised' approaches are necessarily superior for prevention and screening.