Is precision medicine really a promising approach for treatment of cancers? In this article, we discuss about current developments of precision medicine in Oncology. Precision Medicine in Cancer Precision Medicine takes advantage of differences in genetic makeup of an individual as well as the environmental differences so that better decisions can be taken to develop optimal treatments designed particularly for that individual. This approach mainly focuses on identifying the genetic makeup of an individual and use of these genetic markers, and cancer is a disease of genome mutations.
In India, it is estimated that about 60-70% or cancer cases reported are curable. However, currently only about 33% of cases are cured . Precision medicine approach may be used by healthcare professionals in India for better diagnosis, prevention, and development of treatment strategies for each…
