In the past decade, advances in precision oncology have resulted in an increased demand for predictive assays that enable the selection and stratification of patients for treatment. The enormous divergence of signalling and transcriptional networks m...
Machine learning is an exciting technology with broad application in big data analysis, as well as increasingly in specialised healthcare. As a diagnostic tool in tissue workup and pathology, it has the potential for personalised and stratified appro...
I analyse an argument according to which medical artificial intelligence (AI) represents a threat to patient autonomy-recently put forward by Rosalind McDougall in the The argument takes the case of IBM Watson for Oncology to argue that such technol...
In contrast to Di Nucci's characterisation, my argument is not a technoapocalyptic one. The view I put forward is that systems like IBM's Watson for Oncology create both risks and opportunities from the perspective of shared decision-making. In this ...
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer
Apr 26, 2019
The strategy of using existing drugs originally developed for one disease to treat other indications has found success across medical fields. Such drug repurposing promises faster access of drugs to patients while reducing costs in the long and diffi...
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