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Theranostical medicine

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Theranostics is the term used to describe the proposed process of diagnostic therapy for individual patients - to test them for possible reaction to taking a new medication and to tailor a treatment for them based on the test results.[1]

It encompasses the possible utilisation of a wide range of subjects that includes: predictive medicine, personalized medicine, integrated medicine, pharmacodiagnostics and Dx/Rx partnering

This method is looked as the possible end result of new advances made in Pharmacogenomics, Drug Discovery using Genetics, Molecular Biology and Microarray chips technology. [2]

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