AI Helps to Study Which Cancer Patients Might be Harmed by Immunotherapy
Written by AZoRoboticsFeb 5 2021
At Case Western Reserve University, scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze simple tissue scans and discovered biomarkers that could pinpoint to doctors those lung cancer patients who might actually suffer worse from immunotherapy.
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To date, oncologists and scientists had classified these lung cancer patients into two wider categories—those who would benefit from immunotherapy, and those who would probably not.
However, according to Pranjal Vaidya, a PhD student in biomedical engineering and researcher at the university’s Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), a third category of patients has started to emerge—hyper-progressors who would actually get worse by immunotherapy, such as a very short lifespan following treatment.