Personalized Medicine
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| Term | Personalized Medicine |
| Short definition | Personalized Medicine - (pronounced) (PER-suh-nuh-LIZED MEH-dih-sin) form of medicine that uses information about a person's own genes or proteins to prevent, diagnose, or treat disease. In cancer, personalized medicine uses specific information about a person's tumor to make a diagnosis, plan treatment, find out how well the treatment is working, or make a prognosis. |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
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Personalized Medicine - (pronounced) (PER-suh-nuh-LIZED MEH-dih-sin) form of medicine that uses information about a person's own genes or proteins to prevent, diagnose, or treat disease. In cancer, personalized medicine uses specific information about a person's tumor to make a diagnosis, plan treatment, find out how well the treatment is working, or make a prognosis. Examples of personalized medicine include the use of targeted therapies to treat certain types of cancer cells, such as B. HER2-positive breast cancer cells, or the use of tumor marker tests to support cancer diagnosis. Also called precision medicine
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