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Personalized medicine
Pronunciation
Definition 1
A form of medicine that uses information about a person’s genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. In cancer, personalized medicine uses specific information about a person’s tumor to help diagnose, plan treatment, find out how well treatment is working, or make a prognosis. Examples of personalized medicine include using targeted therapies to treat specific types of cancer cells, such as HER2-positive breast cancer cells, or using tumor marker testing to help diagnose cancer. Also called precision medicine. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
The application of genomic and molecular data to tailor medical care to individuals. (NCI Thesaurus)
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