Personalized medicine is a type of medicine that is customized to the individual patient. It takes into account the person’s unique genetic makeup, medical history, and lifestyle. This type of medicine is also sometimes called precision medicine.
Some of the emerging trends in personalized medicine include the use of genetic testing to tailor treatments to individual patients, the use of biomarkers to predict which patients will respond to which treatments, and the use of big data to develop new diagnostic and treatment algorithms.