In its broadest sense, ‘personalised medicine’ is the tailoring of medical treatment to the characteristics of an individual patient and moves beyond the current approach of stratifying patients into treatment groups based on phenotypic biomarkers. Nowhere in medicine has the impact of personalised medicine been greater than in oncology. For scientists and oncologists, the term ‘personalised medicine’ is often used interchangeably with terms such as ‘genomic medicine’, ‘precision medicine’ and ‘precision oncology’.
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