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Precision Medicine in Cancer Care

Precision medicine uses an individual’s unique information to guide disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Please read the full article.
Precision medicine uses an individual’s unique clinical, molecular and lifestyle information to guide disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention for cancer, inherited diseases and other complex disorders. Please take some time to read this article, Precision medicine in cancer care from the American Cancer Society.

This overview introduces the topics below:

  • Gene changes and cancer
  • Precision medicine in cancer care
  • Cancer risk and prevention
  • Cancer Diagnosis
  • Cancer treatment
  • Types of cancer where precision medicine is used
  • Limitations to precision medicine in cancer
  • Costs of precision medicine in cancer care

Please brief through the topics and items in which precision medicine can be used for cancer care. Especially how precision medicine can prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. We will introduce targeted therapy in coping with cancer treatment in week 5.

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