Why precision Medicine?
To increase patient specificity is a major goal of modern
medicine so the right treatment is administered at the right time in the
right dose to the right patient. For example, in the area of oncology,
treatment methods are moving away from one-size-fits-all approaches. To target
those specific alterations knowing the unique molecular mutations driving a
person’s condition allows us to design therapies.
Integrate information derived from various tests pathologists today
must be able to and correlate it with clinical information. Increasingly with
precision medicine, pathologists will need to leave the laboratory and play a
more active role in clinical decision-making at the bedside.
The need for pathologists to work more closely with clinicians is the new frontier of medicine. Interactions between pathologists and the patient care team should increase in future. A pathologist in a Taiwan said: “Clinicians shall offer the first-line clinical information should be offered to the clinicians so to the pathologists can understand and act accordingly”.
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