Precision Medicine in Veterinary Science

1. Precision medicine focuses on the clinical management of the patient based on the individual, not based on population -based findings. 2. There are many successes of precision medicine implementation in human oncology and it is therefore integrated into human cancer management. It is increasingly integrated into canine cancer management, with early evidence of its success. 3. In canine oncology, precision medicine can be integrated into practice as a complement to the conventional approaches to disease characterization, treatment, and monitoring. 4. As genomic profiling costs decrease with time, test costs will decrease, allowing for increased utilization and subsequent improvement of knowledge base from which to make better -informed decisions. 5. Integration of precision medicine in canine oncology has already begun and will only expand in utility and use by veterinarians for improved cancer characterization, enhanced therapy selection, and overall more successful management of canine cancer. As such, practitioners are called to interpret and leverage precision medicine reports for their patients.