Here's novel idea. Rather than treating diseases, health care professionals should treat patients. Thanks to advances in nanotechnology this might soon be possible.
It is a fact that different drugs work differently on different people. New imaging probes now portend the day when doctors will be able to predict the effectiveness of a particular drug – before it is prescribed!
In other words, instead of giving the same chemo drug to every breast cancer patient, we will soon be able prescribe the drug which works for a specific individual.
