Defining Precision Medicine and the New Concepts of P-to-p Medicine

There is the need for further defining the term precision medicine due to lack of its authoritative or official definition. After head-to-head comparison of all existing terms and their definitions, the term precision medicine is more frequently used in basic and clinical medicine, because it may best reflect the whole profile of all relevant terms, with something new or different from others. This essay is the first step in the process of updating the definition of precision medicine on the basis of modern concepts of precision medicine and other similar definitions, in particular personalized medicine, some of which are often used interchangeably. As our understanding of precision medicine advances, we must take multidimensional aspects of precision medicine into account. After making efforts, we may one day achieve the vision that is expected for precision medicine.