Precision Medicine in Endocrinology Practice

The precision medicine approach can be used in endocrinology, which provides improved clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness in the healthcare system. The new technologies of genotyping have significantly increased genetic understanding, providing an interesting opportunity to use genetic information to predispose disease and to subclassify the patients whom have the greatest benefit of therapies. Precision diabetes medicine consists of the following components: precision diagnosis, precision therapeutics, precision prevention, precision treatment, precision prognostics, and precision monitoring. The treatment of metastatic or advanced thyroid cancer has undergone a substantial change. It evolved from a one-size-fits-all approach to cytotoxic chemotherapy for these patients to an age of personalized targeted therapy based on tumor type and genomic profile. In this chapter, we present a review of precision medicine approach in endocrinology.