Is AI poised to boost cancer survival rates? Study finds tech can pinpoint where tumors originate - allowing docs to choose best treatment

Is AI poised to boost cancer survival rates? Study finds tech can pinpoint where tumors originate - allowing docs to choose best treatment Artificial intelligence can help work out where a patient’s cancer came from, allowing doctors to choose better treatments, a study suggests.

For a small percentage of patients – especially those whose cancer has spread – doctors can struggle to pinpoint where the tumor originated from.

This makes it much more difficult to choose a treatment for those patients, because many cancer drugs are typically developed for specific cancer types. The Daily Mail

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• Machine learning for genetics-based classification and treatment response prediction in cancer of unknown primary (abstract) Nature Medicine