Genetic information on human diseases is being rapidly gathered with improvements in
biotechnology and is being used to stratify patients according to their likely response to a …

Back in the 1950s, it was a common concept to start further education in internal medicine
with pathology [1]. The idea behind this was that a deeper knowledge of anatomy and …

Traditional nuclear medicine is rapidly being transformed by the evolving concepts in
molecular imaging and theranostics. The utility of new approaches in differentiated thyroid …

[en] At the beginning of 2015, president Obama announced precision medicine Initiative,
and China officially launched precision medicine a month later. A lot of clinical researches …

BIt's more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of
disease a person has,^ stated Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460–c. 370 BC). This sentence of the …

The process of diagnosing and treating disease is shifting from a single specialist interacting
with a patient to a multidisciplinary approach that retains a focus on the patient. The focus of …

Precision medicine is an innovative and emerging approach to treatment that accounts for
individual variability in genetic and environmental factors to identify and utilize the specific …

The growth of molecular imaging heightens the promise of clinical nuclear medicine as a
tool for individualization of patient care and for improvement of health-care outcomes …

Therapies targeting specific tumor pathways are easy to enter the clinic. To monitor
molecular changes, cellular processes, and tumor microenvironment, molecular imaging is …

It is now recognized that intratumoral heterogeneity is associated with more aggressive
tumor phenotypes leading to poor patient outcomes (1). Medical imaging plays a central role …