Pulmonary hypertension is a convergent phenotype that presents late in the natural history of condition. The current clinical classification patients lacks granularity, and this impacts on development deployment treatment. Deep molecular phenotyping using platform ‘omic’ technologies beginning to reveal genetic architecture underlies phenotype, promising better targeting with new treatments. fu...

personalized medicine is a set of diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic approaches in which medical interventions are carried out based on individual patient characteristics. as life expectancy increases in developed and developing countries, the incidence of diseases such as cancer goes up among people in the community. cancer is a disease that the response to treatment varies from one person...

Personalized medicine is the development of 'tailored' therapies that reflect traditional medical approaches, with the incorporation of the patient's unique genetic profile and the environmental basis of the disease. These individualized strategies encompass disease prevention, diagnosis, as well as treatment strategies. Today's healthcare workforce is faced with the availability of massive amo...

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W.B.C. is Special Editor of the Breast Cancer Theme Issue. Personalized medicine, individualized medicine, and precision medicine are interchangeable terms that describe an approach to the treatment of disease that harnesses our understanding of the molecular basis and mechanisms of a given disease and matches appropriate therapeutic interventions. Breast cancer represents a diverse collection ...