Angela R Starkweather, Debra E Lyon, R K Elswick, Alison J Montpetit, Yvette Conley, Nancy L McCain
Personalized medicine applies knowledge about the patient's individual characteristics in relation to health and intervention outcomes, including treatment response and adverse side-effects, to develop a tailored treatment plan. For women with breast cancer, personalized medicine has substantially improved the rate of survival, however, a high proportion of these women report multiple, co-occurring psychoneurological symptoms over the treatment trajectory that adversely affect their quality of life. In a subset of these women, co-occurring symptoms referred to as symptoms clusters, can persist long after treatment has ended...
September 2013: Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine