Precision Medicine and the Future of Cancer Care with Susanne Baars and João Bocas

João Bocas - The #Wearables Expert ™ interviews Susanne Baars, Senior Global Thought Leader at Siemens-Healthineers, CEO / Founder at Social Genomics and Ted Speaker In this episode, we talked about the #PrecisionMedicine and the Future of #Cancer care in #Healthcare Here are the questions we've addressed: 01:41 What is the real potential of Precision Medicine? 05:18 Do you have any ground breaking examples to share with us? 09:40 What is your prediction in terms of curing most cancers with precision medicine or other innovations? Connect with Susanne Baars: Twitter - https://twitter.com/baars_susanne LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannebaars/ My mission SocialGenomics MOONSHOT page https://www.linkedin.com/company/socialgenomics/?viewAsMember=true TED Talks : https://www.ted.com/talks/susanne_baars_how_we_solve_tomorrow_s_diseases https://www.ted.com/talks/susanne_baars_saving_lives_together Share this episode with your networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8qZK0xt-ps Feel free to 📣 CONNECT WITH ME 🟢: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaobocas/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WearablesExpert Please check our Digital Health Platform - CliniTouch Vie https://bit.ly/CliniTouch_Vie Industry Partner: Isaac Care https://bit.ly/isaac-care Precision medicine is a new way of understanding the potential of cancer treatments. It's based on the theory that every person's cancer is unique, so they need a treatment that's specific to them. This is why precision medicine is so exciting—it can be used to develop personalized treatments for patients with cancer. The future of cancer care will involve more than just individualized treatments: it will also mean using technology like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyze your genetic makeup, looking for patterns among large groups of people with similar diseases or conditions. This kind of analysis could lead to better drug therapies and vaccines for all kinds of cancers. So what does this mean for you? Well, one day soon it may be possible for scientists to identify specific genetic markers in your body's cells that signal whether or not you're susceptible to certain types of cancer—and if so, which ones! This would allow doctors to tailor their treatments specifically for your unique needs, rather than relying on one-size-fits-all approaches like chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Precision medicine is the future of cancer care. With the advent of technology, we now have the ability to more accurately target cancer cells and deliver treatments with fewer side effects. This means it's no longer necessary to kill all cells that have mutated—we can now treat the ones that matter. In the past, cancer treatments were mostly one-size-fits-all: they would work for everyone and kill everything. But today, we can use genetic sequencing to identify mutations in individual patients' tumors and then target those specific mutations with drugs or other therapies. This allows us to be much more precise about what needs to be eliminated from your body and what should stay (like healthy cells). The idea behind precision medicine is simple: personalized treatment plans based on an individual's genes and environment. We've known that genes play a role in cancer for some time now, but we're only beginning to understand the full range of factors involved. Now that we have access to more genetic information than ever before, researchers are developing tests that can tell us more about our risks for certain cancers and how they might respond to different treatments. These tests will help doctors make better decisions about which drugs work best for each patient—and ultimately make cancer less scary. One of the most exciting areas of medicine is Precision Medicine, which is the idea that we can tailor treatments to a person's unique genetic makeup. If you have not subscribed, do it now - https://bit.ly/3iQ6EXP