Precision Medicine and Innovative Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
10.11842/wst.2017.01.002
- VernacularTitle:精准医学和中医药创新发展
- Author:
Kaixian CHEN
- Keywords:
Precision medicine;
traditional Chinese medicine;
innovative development
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2017;19(1):7-18
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Precision medicine was recognized as a research focus nowadays as it shows the promise of overcoming the challenge of health and medicine that we are currently facing.Combining novel techniques in genetics,molecular imaging and bioinformatics with clinical and personal information,precision medicine can make sound health risk prediction and accurate classification,diagnosis and therapy to establish personalized disease prevention and treatment programs and to achieve accurate assessment of individual therapy and prognosis.This paper briefly summarized the background information,scientific content,current development and potential effect of precision medicine on modern medical science.The essence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM),which is body-oriented entirety diagnosis and treatment based on syndrome differentiation,highly matched the core notion of precision medicine,emphasizing different treatments for different people with the same disease at different stages.Therefore,further investigation of TCM with the idea of precision medicine will definitely promote its innovative development.Thus,it is important that we profoundly mine and enlarge the recognized vantages of TCM,explore new strategies,technologies and methodologies to inherit and promote precision medicine and personalized therapy in TCM;and enrich the ways of the approaches of TCM precision therapy.Taking precision diagnosis and precision therapy as our focuses,we will afford to promote TCM by emphasizing its philosophy of personalized,dynamic and entirety diagnoses and treatment.
