Point-of-care devices: the next frontier in personalized chemotherapy

The ‘standard-of-care’ is the commonest type of treatment, determined by averaging responses across large cohorts. However, every patient has their own genetic background and lifestyle, which indicates that each one should receive individualized care as based on clinical trials. The ‘Precise Medicine’ era has emerged to achieve successful treatment for each patient based on their personal characteristics and it is pushing forward ‘point-of-care’ (POC) devices [1]. The POC concept relies on portable, user-friendly and robust devices to perform sensitive and specific detection anywhere. This technology can also be linked to a cell phone coupled to a detection device [2]. One...