Personalized medicine--one size fits one: tailoring pain therapy to individuals' needs.

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Personalized medicine can be defined as the tailoring of therapies to defined subsets of patients based on their likelihood to respond to therapy or their risk of adverse events. This medical model is more established in oncology but personalized pain therapy is showing potential promise. Pharmacogenomics is of growing relevance to the pain field, for example cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) polymorphisms with...

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