Consideration of precision medicine and big data in oral cancer

With the development of computer science and biotechnology, medical data has been dramatically increased and demonstrated the properties of variety and complexity. Biological and clinical researchers now face increasingly large and complex data sets. In the era of big data, strategies of diagnosis and treatment of cancer are gradually changed from evidence-based medicine to precision medicine. The promise of the big data paradigm may affect patients with oral cancer by enabling personalized monitoring, diagnosis and treatment. In this article, we will review the advances of diagnosis and treatment modality in oral cancer based on big data platform, which is mainly focused on oral cancer screening, early detection, molecular classification, prediction of metastasis and chemosensitivity.