Precision Medicine: Unveiling Progress Amidst Challenges

Precision medicine is an approach to provide individualized treatment to the patient for a specific disease based on the genotypic, phenotypic and also psychological factors which in turn enhances the patient care to several folds. Apart from providing personalized treatment, it can also be used to accurately diagnose a disease state in a patient. Precision medicine can be employed to improve the health status of both individual patients and general population at high risk. However, several ethical considerations have to be looked upon while employing precision medicine at the same time it required more cutting-edge methodologies for the accurate execution of the same.