personalized medicine

American  

noun

1. an approach to the practice of medicine that uses information about a patient’s unique genetic makeup and environment to customize the patient's medical care.

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Etymology

Origin of personalized medicine

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

“Hereditary breast cancer risk assessment needs to go beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2 and include genes like PALB2,” said Dr. Peter Hulick, medical director of the Mark R. Neaman Center for Personalized Medicine at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill. “Raising awareness with physicians and patients is critical, otherwise patients are getting an incomplete genetic assessment.”

From New York Times

Human bodies and brains are complicated, and our job as basic scientists is to lay the foundational knowledge that will ultimately inform personalized medicine.

From Scientific American

“When it comes to vaccine hesitancy, it is more like personalized medicine,” said Christopher Graves, founder of the Ogilvy Center for Behavioral Science at Ogilvy Consulting, “more customized to specific worldviews and cultural filters.”

From Washington Post

The Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford has been using data from smartwatches that track resting heart rate and respiration to monitor spikes that might indicate a viral invader.

From Washington Post

“When it comes to vaccine hesitancy, it is more like personalized medicine,” he said, “more customized to specific worldviews and cultural filters.”

From Washington Post