Prostate Cancer
Precision Medicine

What is Precision Medicine (PM)?

Precision medicine is an innovative approach to disease treatment and prevention that considers individual differences in genetics, environment, and lifestyle. It moves away from the “one-size-fits-all” method, offering treatments tailored to each patient’s unique needs.

Goals of Precision Medicine

Precision medicine is all about finding the right treatment for you, based on your genetic makeup, environment, and lifestyle. It is a more personalized approach to your health care enhancing treatment efficacy and therapeutic success, reducing side effects, and improving health outcomes just by knowing an individual’s unique profile.

Precision medicine/precision oncology represents a shift towards more individualized care in prostate cancer treatment. By focusing on the unique characteristics of each patient’s disease, it aims to optimize therapeutic efficacy, minimize side effects, and ultimately improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

Precision medicine when applied to cancer care tailors medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each patient’s disease. This approach is particularly beneficial in prostate cancer, where genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors can significantly affect treatment outcomes.