Precision health: A nursing perspective

Study on the Salivary Microbial Alteration of Men With Head and Neck Cancer and Its Relationship With Symptoms in Southwest China

“…Symptoms, such as voice/speech difficulty and pain, could hardly be triggered by one or two kinds of oral bacterial microbes. However, precision health applying big data sets that combine omics, such as microbiome, with clinical symptoms could help optimizing disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention specific to different patients (Fu et al, 2020). This pilot study explored the association between saliva microbiome and HNC-related symptoms.…”

“…During cancer diagnosis and treatment, patients' symptoms are essential to ensure the accurate diagnosis and effective treatment (Fu et al, 2016;Hu et al, 2020). In the omic era, microbiome play an important role in symptom science research (Corwin et al, 2019;Fu et al, 2020). Nevertheless, little is known about the relationship between the oral microbiota and symptoms among patients with HNC.…”

Precision Medicine and Precision Nursing: The Era of Biomarkers and Precision Health

“…In this way, nurses may involve patients and families in health education, also on the meaning and the utility of omics tests, thus supporting adequate care delivery, and collecting also critical feedback and insight on novel technological applications used during clinical and caring pathways. 3 , 18 , 19 …”

“…42 In the nursing area an accurate family health history must be collected by nurses, as this represent a key nursing action that can help identify the need for omics testing for various risk factor and disease conditions. 3 For example, in oncology setting in the area of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer family history collected by nurses may serve to identify women with an increased risk for harmful genetic mutations. Women with positive screening results should receive genetic counseling and, if appropriate, relative genetic testing.…”

“… 2 PM and PN are deeply related in the context of precision health (PH), which considers several biological markers, or biomarkers, such as “omics”, with other factors such as lifestyle, social characteristics, economic issues, cultural traits, and environmental factors, in order to have information on disease susceptibility, exposure, trait, evolution, and response to treatment. 3 , 4 In this context, biomarkers are the operational arm of PH, and the most updated information of these factors will be discussed in the present review.…”