What Is Precision Medicine?

Precision medicine — also called personalized medicine — is a way for health care providers to give safe and effective care and treatment based on things that make someone unique. They personalize care using information about a person's: genes: made of DNA, the blueprint for the body.

What is the concept of precision medicine?

Precision medicine is the intersection between people, their environment, changes in their markers of health and illness and social and behavioral factors over time. Precision medicine looks at factors that make up individuals and populations and how these factors change and interact over time.

What is the basic principle of precision medicine?

Precision medicine offers a more personalized and targeted approach to preventing disease; it considers patients' unique genetic, biological and environmental factors, as well as their lifestyles, during screening, diagnosis and treatment.

What is an example of how precision medicine is already a common practice?

“Cancer is the best example of personalized or precision medicine in practice because what's happening is that certain cancer types are actually now being based on the genetics of the cancer cells themselves."

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