Major technological advances and their popularization in the genomics, the bio-microarray, the next generation sequencing, the big data and the cloud computing, the artificial intelligence, the bio-pharmaceutical engineering make the precision medicine, especially, the precision medicine in curing the cancer step into a stage of exponential growth. Acquiring, analyzing and understanding the personal cancer genomics are the key in the process from the drug discovery to the novel designs of clinical trials, which also shows the critical importance of robust molecular diagnostics platforms. This paper gives an overview of the concept, the significance, the history, the techniques, the challenges and the prospects of the precision cancer medicine, as well as the applications of the precision medicine in the gliomas and colorectal cancer.

cancer  /  precision medicine  /  personalized medicine  /  genomics  /  next generation sequencing