Social identities in the media
Why do you think it is important to critically examine social identities in the media?
● Have you previously formed an opinion of a person or group of people based on
what you have seen in the media?
● Has the content in this module challenged those pre-conceived notions in any way?
applications of personalized medicine has wide influence fields. These applications involve diagnosis, screening, prediction, prognosis of treatment efficacy, control of patient after surgery to detect recurrence earlier and classification of patient into the small subgroups.
These subgroups favourably lead to choose targeted therapies. Targeted therapies provide high efficiency to respond rate to the therapy and survival consequences.(8) There are some current test for the varied aspects of personalized medicine (Table 1). Also personalized medicine contribute to the pharmaceutical companies. Because they waste o lot of money for the drug design. (9)
Cancer screening
Genetic and environmental factors are both contributor of the predisposition of cancer (10). Knowing the nature of these contributers is important to prevent the diseases ( adapting lifetstyle and behavior to the conditions). Sometimes genetic factors and cancer that are associated with each other affect significantly clinical intervention. For instance, as mentioned before if mutations occur at breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 and 2 (BRCA1,BRCA2) and at the same time if mutations occur at tumor suppressor genes , there is higher risk to develop the breast, ovarian, hematologic and prostate cancers(11). For these reason, regular screening, surgical measures and receive adjuvant therapies would undergo to prevent. Also genetic tests are used to analyse the inherited mutations DNA mismatch repair genes. Risk of advencing of colon cancer is high at the MLH1 and MSH2 genes(12). Under the light of this information cancer can be precluded with early screening colonoscopy to early detect and treat for cancer. Cancer databases that are about mutation types and polymorphisms are updated for public. These resources can be used to identify new biomarkers for screening.(13)
Tumor classification and subtyping
Personalized medicine changes the traditional classification of cancers from histologic scale to the molecular scale. Although histological scale does’nt give more information about prognosis , personalized tretment alternatives and risk of recurrence, molecular scale offers to give a detailed information about diseases processes(14). DNA, RNA, miRNA and protein have been used for molecy-ular analyses to classfy different tumor types into the subtypes. Each of them have an unique prognostic outcome that can not be identified with the traditional morphologic ways(15). Generally molecular scale for classification is used for acute myeloid leukemia, glioblastoma, breast cancer , and renal cell carcinoma , and to differentiate between Burkitt’s
Sample Solution
It is important to critically examine social identities in the media because what we see can influence our perceptions of people and groups in a positive or negative way. Media outlets, such as television, movies, books, magazines and newspapers offer us windows into worlds beyond our own but they also have the potential to shape how we view others based on their appearance or other factors (Hallinan & Murray, 2018). When it comes to certain minority populations they are often misrepresented through narrow stereotypes or portrayed as “the other” which can lead to distorted views of who those individuals actually are (Gaither et al., 2019).
I have personally experienced forming an opinion of a person or group of people based on what I saw in the media. As a young adult I was exposed to numerous films that portrayed drug users and dealers as violent criminals preying on innocent victims. Therefore when I encountered someone from that demographic group my first instinct was one of fear due to the preconceived notions I had from seeing them depicted negatively so many times before (Gerbner et al., 2002). Fortunately over time as my understanding grew about this population I realized that not all drug users were criminals and that these representations were far too simplistic for what was really happening.
In conclusion, it is essential to critically examine social identities in the media because doing so provides us with greater insight into the reality behind these images while also allowing us to question any assumptions we might make about how certain groups should be viewed. We must recognize that media depictions may only reflect one side of a story and thus strive towards gaining a better understanding by seeking out information from multiple sources.