Personalized Medicine approache in Medical Ethics

Personalized medicine is a branch of medicine focusing on incorporation of molecular genetic insights into treatment of patients and prognosis strategies selection. As passing the second decade following the Human Genome Project parallel with development in technologies such as gene expression assays and next-generation sequencing, evidence base of personalized medicine has become settled in growing number of clinical fields. Shifting into personalized medicine is confronting many challenges including ethical and social problems. Science personalized medicine could not get prosper as ethical problems stay unresolved, there is a need to broaden the focus of work on this field of medication to overcome the ethical hindrance informed consent science gap. The significant increment in amount of health information associated with personalized medicine will raise the need of addressing issues such as privacy, availability, stigmatization, discrimination, liability, physician/patient relationship, implementation, data banking, confidentiality and unauthorized disclosure. Furthermore, individual/social benefit versus science development beside health disparities exacerbation such as cost and input/output problem should be balanced. Therefore, the need for proper ethical ground rules is indispensable in order to illustrate structure of policy making and strategy planning in field of ethical issues surrounding personalized medicine. Considering the importance of individualized therapy, the next decade in personalized medicine should be time of extensive alterations in the medication trend comprising ethical, social, legal, and economical modifications to create a positive impact on quality of healthcare system.