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When treating patients with early-stage lung cancer, physicians must decide whether to proceed with potentially beneficial but toxic therapies like chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy to remove cancer and reduce the likelihood that it will spread to the brain, or whether to wait and see if lung surgery alone is adequate.
A new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis could help physicians strike the right balance when treating lung cancer patients. Scientists used an artificial intelligence (AI) method to study lung biopsy images and predict whether the cancer will spread to the brain.