Synonym(s)
Personalized medicine; predictive medicine
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Suitcase word from the terms "therapy" and "diagnostics". Theranostics refers to a closer interlocking of diagnostics and therapy with the aim of achieving a controlled, individualized treatment for a specific patient. This is intended to test the suitability and effectiveness of a drug for a specific disease in this one patient, ultimately also with regard to a targeted, "resource-saving" use of modern, highly effective (and expensive) drugs.
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer