Precision medicine is an approach to maximise the effectiveness of disease treatment and prevention by taking into account variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. It seeks to redefine our understanding of disease onset and progression, treatment response, and health outcomes through the more precise measurement of molecular, environmental, and behavioural factors that contribute to health and disease. This understanding can lead to diagnoses that are more accurate, to disease prevention strategies that are more rational, to a better treatment selection, and to the development of novel therapies.
Two key areas of focus for this journal are:
- Bringing together researchers, clinicians and industry to develop molecular diagnostic tools, to enable stratification in disease areas such as cancer, respiratory diseases, digestive disease, infections, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, lupus and others.
- Gathering and analysing genetic data, biological samples, and other information about a specific population’s health in order to use these data to study a large range of diseases, with the goal of predicting disease risk on an individual patient, understanding how diseases occur, and finding improved targeted diagnosis and treatment strategies.
We accept the following types of articles:
Overview Review*
Review* (standard review)
Research article*
Perspective
Comment** (invited only)
Case studies*
* All or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access. For authors not covered by an agreement, and without APC funding, please see this journal's open access options for instructions on how to request an APC waiver.
** No APCs are required for these article types.