AI And Accelerating The Adoption Of Precision Oncology

Precision oncology is a revolution in cancer care where the right treatments are matched to the right patients. Precision oncology can help identify patients at high risk for cancer and help lower risk, find cancers earlier, improve diagnosis of type of cancer, choose the best treatments, and monitor how well treatments work. Precision oncology can improve quality of life, helping patients avoid unnecessary treatments and high-risk invasive procedures.

To date precision oncology treatments have only been developed for some cancers. Even when the treatments are available, not all patients receive them. Barriers to access include the lack of availability of digital tools and IT infrastructure and access to genetic testing. Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to clinical, genomic, and social determinants of health data may help in developing targeted prevention strategies and new treatments and help identify eligible patients so that care can be delivered efficiently and equitably.