Abstract
Individualized or Personalized therapy is a way of medicine will evolve through the use of specific treatments best suited to an individual genotype. This focuses on the role of personalized medicines in cancer and explores its use in current clinical practice in oncology and the challenges to be overcome to achieve this goal. Therefore cancer therapy presents a unique example of personalized therapy in which an individual’s genotype not only determines therapeutics and toxic response to a drug, but also the nature of a specific tumor
Keywords: Targeted therapy, personalized therapy.
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Corresponding Author
Major (Dr) M.Q. Baig
Associate Professor J.K Cancer Institute Kanpur, India
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v9i9.03
