More Singaporean patients benefiting from personalised medicine
15-Aug-17, The Straits Times
More patients are benefiting from personalised medicine, also called precision medicine, which primarily uses genetic testing to customise medical treatment for patients by flagging the potential toxicity and side effects of drugs.
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Healthcare bioanalytics firm Invitrocue and A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore have opened a joint laboratory to conduct research on personalised medicine for cancer treatment. Dr Leong Khai Pang, clinical director of the personalised medicine service at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, said the "science is still new" but doctors remain hopeful.