An explosive development of global molecular assessment technology during the recent decades has resulted in the multitude of “-omic” approaches awaiting to be translated into surgical practice. To most surgeons, however, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, comics, and other “-omics” are of very similar predictive and entertaining value. Namely, often the “-omics” do not predict anything and are somewhat mildly entertaining, at least as far as the surgical outcomes are concerned. This is the current state of affair in surgical “-omics”.
