Precision medicine in four deadliest Cancers of the world : present practices & future prospects

Abstract

Cancer is a very personalized disease which is why conventional oncology treatment following the ‘one size fits all’ method is unable to cure all patients effectively and for this, cancer remains one of the leading causes of death throughout the world as well as one of the incurable diseases, despite the tremendous advancements in medical science. Here comes precision medicine with the vision of treating each patient by gathering the cancer-specific information of an individual patient and targeting that based on the particular patient factors to provide the best possible treatment routine for that individual. This paper reviews some of the latest articles that focus on the present practices and the future prospects of precision medicine in four major types of cancers throughout the world: lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.