AI-based computer model offers new weapon against hard-to-treat cancers

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Researchers at University College London and the University of Cambridge developed an AI-based computer model that uses a patient’s genetic profile to predict which treatments may work against difficult-to-treat cancers. The approach is intended to help identify options when standard therapies have failed.

In a new paper published in Cell Reports Medicine, the UCL team outlines how they, in collaboration with a University of Cambridge team, developed a new type of treatment-predicting computer program that uses an individual's detailed genetic fingerprint to explore which treatments, if any, may kill their cancer—especially when standard treatments have failed.