(Precision Medicine) Shirokane Cancer Support Clinic: Treatment Introduction
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What Is Precision Medicine?
- September 11, 2020
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Precision Medicine — next-generation personalized treatment — is a medical system that designs the most appropriate treatment for each individual patient after evaluation. It applies not only to cancer patients but to all patients.
In cancer treatment, even within the same cancer type, the genetic mutations differ between patients. With advances in medicine, the "Next Generation Sequencer (NGS)" — a more precise and faster genetic testing tool than ever before — has emerged, and cancer treatment "Precision Medicine (next-generation personalized treatment)" now broadly encompasses everything from cancer prevention and diagnosis to targeted drug delivery and immunotherapy, the fourth major cancer treatment modality.
On the other hand, under the limitations of existing health insurance systems, general hospitals primarily operate within the scope of covered care. Even when appropriate or high-response drugs are identified through genetic testing, many of these drugs are not covered by insurance and therefore cannot be accessed — creating a challenging situation for patients.
At Shirokane Cancer Support Clinic, the above Precision Medicine (next-generation personalized treatment) serves as the fundamental approach to cancer treatment. Beyond standard health insurance treatments, the clinic also incorporates "AI-integrated gene therapy" and "immunotherapy" as the core pillars of advanced medicine, responding to the individual circumstances of each patient with next-generation personalized treatment plans.
At the same time, supplementary cancer treatment approaches including "exercise therapy" and "nutritional therapy" are provided to improve patients' quality of life (QOL) and help maintain daily functioning as much as possible.
Shirokane Cancer Support Clinic provides comprehensive support to maximize treatment outcomes for cancer patients, integrating medical insights from the latest scientific knowledge all the way to lifestyle management.
Source: https://shirokane-cancer.jp/order_made.html
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