Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics is the ethnical term for the way individuals respond to medicines depending on the genes that they have inherited. It has the potential to save money because the right person can be matched with the right medication, but for people with cancer it's about much more than just cost. You need to get the treatment that kills the cancer before the cancer kills you. Pharmacogenomics gives us a way to work out which cancer medications are likely to be most effective for which patients. From the Tonic series produced with the assistance of NPS. First screened on ABC2 in Australia.