In the past, doctors have diagnosed a disease, and often, all doctors treated that particular disease in the same way with the same drugs. Now, DNA testing is allowing doctors to treat each individual patient and not just the disease.

This more specific treatment will give patients targeted therapies and better results.

Personalized medicine is already benefiting patients today, especially those suffering from certain types of cancer.

University of Colorado Hospital patient Andy Hill says that less than one year ago, he “had chest pains, considerable fatigue – hard to get out of bed in the mornings.”

Hill was fighting stage 3 lung cancer with metastasis. He was exhausted and could hardly climb the stairs in his house back in Seattle.

Hill says his cancer diagnosis caught everyone by surprise.