The term personalized healthcare may seem like a buzzword, but it’s real and developing faster than imagined in the form of precision medicine. Using a patient’s genetic profile in conjunction with lifestyle and environmental variables to create individual treatment plans—what could be more personal than that?
Thanks to technology, we are starting to see the benefits of precision medicine in practice. In August, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that demonstrated how genetic tests could help to identify breast cancer patients who might not need chemotherapy.
