MSK Library Guides: Precision Medicine: Background

Welcome

Welcome!

This MSK Library Guide is a pathfinder to information on precision medicine and is meant to serve as a comprehensive overview, as well as, a starting point for further research on this topic.

Your guide,
Dina Matsoukas
Research Informationist III

What is Precision Medicine?

FACT SHEET: President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
January 30, 2015
Genetics Home Reference: Precision Medicine
"Help Me Understand Genetics provides an introduction to fundamental topics related to human genetics, including illustrations and basic explanations of genetics concepts."
Precision Oncology: An Overview
Special Series issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology. JCO May 20, 2013 vol. 31 no. 15
Targeted Cancer Therapies
NCI Fact Sheet
Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease.
National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease. National Academies Press, 2011.
Understanding Precision Medicine in Cancer Treatment
NCI Fact Sheet.
What is personalized medicine?
Personalized Medicine Coalition

Right on Target: Precision Medicine to Treat Rare Tumors (4:29 min)

This video was produced by YOUREKA Science in collaboration with Malak Abed and her team in Boston.

Webinars & Videos

National Human Genome Research Institute's GenomeTV
"GenomeTV is the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) collection of video resources. A wide variety of videos is available, from lectures, to news documentaries, to full video collections of meetings that tackle the research, issues and clinical applications of genomic research."
NIH Precision Medicine Initiative channel on YouTube
Multiple videos of various lengths.

Journals and Special Issues Focussing on Precision Medicine

JCO Precision Oncology
"JCO PO is a peer-reviewed, online-only, article-based journal publishing original research, reports, opinions, and reviews that advance the science and practice of precision oncology and define genomics- and other biomarker-driven clinical care of patients with cancer."

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