Proposal for the creation of a national strategy for precision medicine in cancer: a position statement of SEOM, SEAP and SEFH

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Garrido, Pilar
Aldaz, Azucena
Calleja, Miguel Ángel
Álava, Enrique de
Lamas, María Jesús
Martín, Miguel
Palacios, José
Vera, Ruth
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Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment
and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes,
environment, and lifestyle for each person. Precision medicine is
transforming clinical and biomedical research, as well as health care
itself from a conceptual,
as well as a methodological viewpoint,
providing extraordinary opportunities to improve public health and lower
the costs of the healthcare system. However, the implementation of
precision medicine poses ethical-legal, regulatory, organizational and
knowledge-related challenges. Without a national strategy, precision
medicine, which will be implemented one way or another, could take
place without the appropriate planning that can guarantee technical
quality, equal access of all citizens to the best practices, violating the
rights of patients and professionals and jeopardizing the solvency of the
healthcare system. With this paper from the Spanish Societies of Medical
Oncology (SEOM), Pathology (SEAP), and Hospital Pharmacy (SEFH)
we highlight the need to institute a consensual national strategy for the
development of precision medicine in our country, review the national
and international context, comment on the opportunities and challenges
for implementing precision medicine, and outline the objectives of a
national strategy on precision medicine in cancer.
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Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2017, vol. 41, núm. 61, p. 688-691Collections
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