When you go to the hospital, you can see many cancer patients. However, cancer treatment is executed with a standardized form of treatment as the staging of cancer gets worse. This treatment also gets credit with lots of experiences and clinical tests, but not all patients have experienced the same effects. Some can experience serious side effects while others do not. So, this system has caused the problem of high-cost low efficiency.

▲ effects for individuals

To solve this problem, there is another treatment that can bring better results. It is called precision medicine which uses various information of patients such as their gene information and life pattern. It includes personalized precaution, diagnosis, treatment, and medicine that can optimize patients’ health. So it is a treatment of the fourth industrial revolution age.

▲ personalized medicines

Moreover, we can apply for precision medicine in many things to make the medical world more developed. First, we can do drug genome custom therapy. It can reduce the danger of using drugs. Second, we can do an accompanying diagnosis that can predict a patient's reaction to specific drug treatment. Third, we can do a targeted therapy which includes every type of therapy method that targets biological important process which is causing a disease. Last, we can predict the risk of the disease with genome analysis.

According to those things, there are lots of advantages to using precision medicine. It can minimize side effects, wastes, and cost, and it can maximize the effects and qualities of patients' life. In the field of treating cancer, it can provide substantial benefits to patients by blocking the process of cancer and increasing their chances to live longer. It is a suitable treatment for individuals for it can cure diseases efficiently, quickly, and properly. So, precision medicine should be spread widely to predict and prevent cancer and to give people healthy life.

▲ Curing patients properly

2019.12.21.

By Jin Hyun Hui