WHAT IS BIOMARKER?

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defines identifity of specific disease

• forms a fingerprint\signiture of certain diseases used to evaluate
  • e.g cancer (stage of it, type of treatment that patient can have, and this concept of developing biomarks has mo

types

prognositcs → detects the likelyohood of a disease in a population

• helps in predicting progress of disease

predictive → look into the possible response of this specific type of treatment in that patient

e.g chemotherapy haas alot of types for different types of cancer

some cancer before applying therapy, patient undergoes genetic test to find some genetic mutations → this test let physician know which type of treatmentis best

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