Open AccessDiagnostic Pathology in the Era of Precision Medicine
Author(s) -
Summaya Shawanna,
Yasmeen Taj
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of bahria university medical and dental college
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9482
pISSN - 2220-7562
DOI - 10.51985/lshu1451
Subject(s) - precision medicine , medicine , pathology , genomic medicine , focus (optics) , medical physics , intensive care medicine , biology , computational biology , physics , optics
The ever-increasing importance of targeted therapy in the management of cancerous and non-neoplastic diseases calls for novel, advanced techniques of diagnostic pathology. The past decade has witnessed substantial changes in how cancer patients are managed, with a pronounced focus on precision medicine based on genomic profiles and gene expression analysis, thus discarding the “one-size-fits-all” approach1.