P4
editP4 medicine is a term originally coined by Leroy Hood [1] to explain a shift from a reactive mode of medicine, i.e., treatment beginning on the onset of symptoms, to a prospective mode of medicine. P4 stands for the four Ps, i.e., Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory [2].
Predictive medicine
editThe first step in P4 medicine is the predictive medicine.[3] Medicine will be made predictive rather than reactive, so that before the onset of disease, a patient will be able to Prevent it. The power of prediction depends upon availability of individual genomic data, blood protein data, information from and individual's RNAome, proteome and metabolome (requiring nanotechnology to analyze thousands of proteins, RNAs and metabolites in minimum space and time), and increased computing power [4] to process and store such large amounts of data from not only a single patient but the whole population.
References
edit- ^ by http://blog.p4medicine.com/2006/07/what-is-p4-medicine.html
- ^ http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_hood
- ^ Hood, LeroyLee Rowen, David J.Galas and John D. Aitchison.25 June 2008. Systems biology at the Institute for Systems Biology. Briefings In Functional Genomics and Preoteomics. VOL 7. NO 4. 239^248 pp 244
- ^ http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/24703/