20.4. New Health Care Solutions and Implications for Individuals
The new wave of genomics will greatly increase the proportion of therapies that modify, cure, or prevent disease processes by identifying the causative process and intervening in it. This will be a fundamental change in medical care, offering considerable added value over today's therapies, which largely provide only symptomatic relief.
The importance of genetics is especially increasing in the study of cancer. Today there are 369 biotech drugs in development, and 47 percent of them target cancer. One recently launched Novartis compound illustrates how rational drug design can help discover new therapies. This compound (Gleevec) was developed for the treatment of chronic myelogenous ...
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