Clinical trials on various types of cancers come up with abundant fruits, as benefited from the blooming of the precision medicine, the idea of which has been developed significantly in recent years. The clinical practice of the precision medicine, however, is still in its infancy. Rapid growing demands for informative and reliable data-/knowledge-bases of biological and medical science call for an integrated data analysis of multiple "-omics" data and a novel clinical trial design tailored for the precision medical research. The introduction of the Electric Health Record (HER) and the standardized ontology system is essential for the optimal operation of the clinical decision support systems (CDSS). It is urgent to have a proper policy on the informed consent, the privacy and the confidentiality, and a targeted genomic screening. Guidelines ensuring the maximized efficacy and the minimal false positive rate is yet to be sought for. Professional education is of great help for the proper application of the genomic testing in the clinical practice.

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