Precision medicine is a new approach to medical science in which a specially tailored medicine is administered to the patients taking consideration of various factors like age, environment, family, etc.
Advantages of precision medicine
• Increases the chances of a doctor to use the patient’s genetic and molecular information.
• Enhances the ability to predict the best treatment for a specific patient
• It improves the ability to understand the underlying mechanisms of the disease.
• It helps in preventing, diagnosing and treating a range of diseases.
Disadvantages of precision medicine
• Huge data needs to be collected from the patient
• The patient has to be aware of the family history
• Time-consuming
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