| Source: news.sciencemag.org --- Wednesday, November 02, 2011
An expert panel today called for creating a massive data network that would combine cutting-edge genomic and molecular data on patients' diseases with their routine medical records. Such a database would be a boon for research and help move medical care into the era of "precision medicine," the panel says. The National Research Council panel was formed last year at the request of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to consider how the more than 100-year-old system of disease classification should be changed to reflect insights from molecular biology. But the committee decided that "our challenge is bigger," said panel co-chair Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, at a press briefing today. Instead of a new classification, the nation needs a live network of data on individuals' molecular tests and health record s. This system would be used to develop a new disease taxonomy and personalize medical care, according to the 108-page report, titled Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease . Precision medicine is already emerging in cancer diagnosis and treatment, the report says: some patients now receive drugs matched to a specific molecular marker in their tumor, and relatives can be tested for certain cancer risks. By contrast, a middle-aged man diagnosed with type II diabetes typically receives a 50-year-old drug tha ...
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