Personalized
medicine, also called personalized treatment, is a medical procedure that
separates patients into different groups—with medical decisions, practices,
interventions and/or products being tailored to the individual patient based on
their predicted response or risk of disease. The terms personalized teartment,
precision medicine, stratified medicine and P4 medicine are used
interchangeably to describe this concept though some authors and organisations
use these expressions separately to indicate particular nuances. While the
tailoring of treatment to patients dates back at least to the time of
Hippocrates, the term has risen in usage in recent years given the growth of
new diagnostic and informatics approaches that provide understanding of the molecular
basis of disease, particularly genomics. This provides a clear evidence base on
which to stratify (group) related patients.
In
the present book, fifteen typical literatures about personalized treatment
published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce
the worldwide newest progress, which contains reviews or original researches on
medical science, genome, medical models, emerging technologies, ect. We hope
this book can demonstrate advances in personalized treatment as well as give
references to the researchers, students and other related people.