Problems and countermeasures of digestive endoscopy on gastric cancer in the era of precision medicine / 中国肿瘤生物治疗杂志

@#Precision medicine is defined as an approach to personalized diagnosis and treatment, based on the omics information of patients. Standardized specimen collection is the basis of molecular pathology diagnosis, which also is the prerequisite for precision medicine. Endoscopic biopsy is an important approach to obtain specimen in gastrointestinal tumors. Here, after summarizing the molecular basis of gastric cancer related to precision medicine, we propose problems involved in the endoscopic specimen collection, and make recommendations accordingly.