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[Predictive medicine: its future]
1L'Académie nationale de médecine, 16 rue Bonaparte-75272 Paris.
Bulletin De L'Academie Nationale De Medecine
|March 23, 2001
Abstract:
Predictive medicine or individualized preventive medicine, medicine based on the probabilities of carrying genes for susceptibility or resistance to a pathology, should be practiced with caution after a very strict evaluation of the risks-benefits.
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