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The development of precision medicine in clinical practice
Mingyan He1, Jinglin Xia, Mohamed Shehab
1Zhongshan Hospital, Minhang Hospital, Zhongshan Hospital Biomedical Research Center, Fudan University Medical School, Fudan University Center for Clinical Bioinformatics, Shanghai Institute of Clinical Bioinformatics, Shanghai, China, hemingyan2011@163.com.
Abstract:
Precision medicine allows a dramatic expansion of biological data, while there is still an urgent need to understand and insight the exact meaning of those data to human health and disease. This has led to an increasing wealth of data unanalyzed. The concept of precision medicine is about the customization of healthcare, with decisions and practices tailored to an individual patient based on their intrinsic biology in addition to clinical "signs and symptoms". Construction of a standardized model for the integration of data from various platforms is the central mission of the 'New Disease Management Model'. The model is helpful for the development of new taxonomy of diseases and subtypes, to personalize therapy based on patient genetic profiles. A rapid progression of precision therapy has been made recently. Clinical trials have shown the therapeutic efficacy of discovered and developed therapeutic agents has improved. However, next-generation drugs would be designed for disease subtypes with more specificity, efficacy and lower toxicity.
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