Drug Delivery Systems Advanced Technologies Potentially Applicable in Personalised Treatment
Jorge Coelho Editor
2013
The social and economic development attained over the last decades turned possible a complete change in terms of life style and life expectancy in developed countries. The scientific knowledge brought unprecedented capacities of diagnosis and health treatment. However, the current healthcare systems are essentially based on the identification of signs and symptoms of pathologies, which in most cases (e.g., cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) results in impossibility of finding effective solutions for the patients because it is already too late, and the progress/complications of the disease are already established.