Prioritizing targets for precision cancer medicine

Precision Medicine for Personalized Cancer Therapy.

Precision medicine is defined as the tailoring of clinical strategies based on genomic, genetic, behavioral and environment background of individual patients. Statistics indicated that traditional clinical practices sometimes lead to poor health outcomes and a waste of medical resources. Medical waste due to unnecessary treatment or ineffective treatment amounted to 75 billion US dollars per ye...

Translating genomics for precision cancer medicine.

The Human Genome Project not only provided the essential reference map for the human genome but also stimulated the development of technology and analytic tools to process massive quantities of genomic data. As a result of this project, new technologies for DNA sequencing have improved in efficiency and cost by more than a millionfold over the past decade, and these technologies can now be rout...

precision medicine for endocrinology

Cancer Precision Medicine in China

Cancer, as a global health issue, has been attracting increasing attention from scientists, medical professionals, as well as the general population. During the past several decades, many therapeutic approaches, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, have come into play for cancer treatment. Nonetheless, many of these treatments are not personalized according to the sp...

Precision Chemistry for Precision Medicine

During the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama unveiled plans for a $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative. The details of this plan were laid out by past and present directors of the National Institutes of Health, Harold Varmus and Francis Collins, in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the announcement stood as a public statement of support for funding,...