ABSTRACT
Personomics recognizes that individuals are not only distinguished by their biological variability health beliefs and other unique life circumstances that have important effects on how and when a given health condition will manifest in that individual and how it will respond to treatment. Precision medicine may be considered a necessary step in the evolution of medical care to personalized medicine, with personomics as the missing link. The evolution from precision medicine to personalized medicine is the evolution from “health care” to “health caring.” Precision medicine splits patients into groups defined by biological characteristics and allows for the delivery of more individualized medical care. In the case of cancer treatment, the biological characteristics are based largely on analysis of tumor tissue. In the case of cancer treatment, the biological characteristics are based largely on analysis of tumor tissue.
