The rapidly decreasing cost of sequencing a person’s genome is one of the factors driving the hype of precision medicine. Photo: AFP
Precision medicine might not be as well-known a term as personalised medicine, but they both mean essentially the same thing.
According to the United States National Institutes of Health, precision medicine is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person”.
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