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Precision Medicine4 min

Would This Actually Change Care?

More patient data does not automatically mean more personalized care.

Precision medicine can incorporate genetics, biomarkers, environment, lifestyle, imaging, clinical information, and other patient-specific data.

But more information is not necessarily better information. The important question is: does this information change what we do?

The case: a 52-year-old patient has newly diagnosed triple-negative breast cancer. New information arrives one piece at a time.