Trends In Precision Medicine: Cancer

Medical progress can be significantly slowed by the enormous gap between laboratory research and clinical research contributing to the failure of many drugs in clinical trials. Precision medicine uses information about an individual’s genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases, including cancer. The massive data sets generated from research like the human genome project, has driven advances in data science and are used to inform additional studies and clinical practice. Standard treatment for some cancers now include genotyping or molecular imaging in living patients.

Many individuals are working now to discover new and effective ways precision medicine can prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases such as cancer.