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Editorial
. 2017 Mar;102(3):411-418.
doi: 10.3324/haematol.2016.156000. Epub 2017 Feb 28.

Tailoring of medical treatment: hemostasis and thrombosis towards precision medicine

Giovanni Di Minno  1 , Elena Tremoli  2
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Editorial

Tailoring of medical treatment: hemostasis and thrombosis towards precision medicine

Giovanni Di Minno et al. Haematologica. 2017 Mar.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Implementing clinical care: precision medicine. The purpose of a comprehensive system of precision medicine is to establish the information base and infrastructure to provide more precise individual information, to make (new) clinical treatment more efficient. This system is aimed at integrating huge amounts of data with the goal of improving health, and implies targeting treatments to the needs of individual patients on the basis of genetic, phenotypic and psychosocial characteristics that distinguish a given patient from other patients with similar clinical presentations.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The promise of precision medicine. “Medicine was, in its history, first of all curative, then preventive and finally predictive”. This change in medical attitudes was due to the advances that have entered medical practice: new imaging techniques and powerful strategies in biological investigation have dramatically improved our ability to monitor early stages of disease development. In addition, increasingly effective treatments (organ transplantation; smart drugs; targeted strategies, vaccinations) have progressively reduced the rates of failures and side effects and in turn improved the cure of (chronic) diseases.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Perspectives in precision medicine. Tests of increased susceptibility to prevent the development of diseases are steadily increasing in different areas of clinical medicine. In a precision prevention-based health system, curative medicine is expected to be needed only in a very limited number of cases “only in desperation”.
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