News from the NIH: potential contributions of the behavioral and social sciences to the precision medicine initiative

The acceptability of self-sampled screening for HPV DNA: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Offering at-home self-sampling with a health outreach worker present may help women engage in participatory medicine and overcome perceived barriers to self-sampling. Thus, self-sampling raises the potential for more women to be up to date with screening in accordance with their risk profile 39 40…”

Geospatial Approaches to Cancer Control and Population Sciences

“…This is exemplified by recent initiatives, such as personalized or precision medicine (7). The Precision Medicine Initiative is a comprehensive effort to better understand which treatments work for which individuals and under which conditions (8). Because health is shaped by factors beyond genetic susceptibility and clinical care, harnessing environmental exposures through geospatial approaches will allow for a much better risk-stratification of the population (9).…”

Sleep quality and its association with fatigue, symptom burden, and mood in patients with advanced cancer in a clinic for early‐phase oncology clinical trials

“…In light of the emphasis of the Precision Medicine Initiative (National Institutes of Health) 8 on including patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials, our secondary aim was to examine the relation between the sleep item on the widely used MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) and calculated global scores from an established, multidimensional, but more elaborate measure of sleep quality, namely, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), which consists of 19 items.…”