Precision medicine centre at KGMU to aid cancer care
Personalised Treatment For Patients
Vivek Singh Chauhan TNN
Lucknow: 20.11.2021
To provide better personalised treatment to cancer patients using the latest research and advancements, King George’s Medical University launched its Precision Medicine Centre (PMC) on Friday.
The centre will help doctors better understand the underlying mechanisms of diseases and improve their approach in preventing, diagnosing, and treating the cancer.
A symposium was also organised in which the head of hematology department and in charge of the centre for advanced research, under which PMC has been started, Prof AK Tripathi said, “At PMC, we will analyse genes, metabolic function, bionomics and other factors in cancer patients. With this data, personalised treatment would be made to patients for better effect of medicines.”
The centre is necessary because it is often seen that treatment which is beneficial for one individual doesn’t work on another, he added.
Prof Dhavendra Kumar from Queen Mary University, London, who is an adviser for the PMC, said, “There has been a lot of progress in cancer treatment with help of genome sequencing.”
Vice-chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Bipin Puri said that the centre will be a milestone for patient care as well as students.
Prof Thangraj, who addressed the symposium virtually from Hyderabad, explained how the Indian genome is different and from where it originated.
Prof Shally Awasthi, head of pediatrics department, said that precision medicine is the need of the hour and has been introduced in undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
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