Genomic medicine is a medical treatment that diagnoses diseases and selects the optimal treatment and drugs for patients by analyzing genetic information. There are concerns that it will lead to discrimination and disadvantages such as enrollment in medical insurance, employment, etc.
because the risk of disease is known. The Genomic Medicine Act provides guidelines on matters that doctors and researchers should protect to the government so that genetic information is appropriately managed and unfair discrimination is not carried out. A group led by Assistant Professor Yi Yan Lee of the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, conducted an online survey of more than 20,60 cancer patients in their 1s to 79s.