Tag: cancer care
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Is the NCCN Undermining its Credibility by Failing to Acknowledge Bias and Value in its Guidelines?
The ostensible role for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is laudable. Essentially, this consortium of 27 leading cancer centers organizes a large group of practice committees with experts in a wide range of cancer subtypes and clinical challenges like supportive care issues, specific complications, age-related challenges, and cancer prevention and screening. These expert committees review the…
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Will AI have an algorithm for wishful thinking? Human error as a valued feature in cancer care
As I’ve previously noted, it is becoming increasingly clear that machine learning can match and in many ways exceed the capacities of human physicians, including specialists like medical oncologists, who are faced with mounting challenges of keeping up with more and more new publications, along with greater complexity of molecularly driven cancer care. The question in the future…
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5 Key Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence to Improve on Human Limitations in Cancer Care
I’m currently working my way through the book Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths, which deconstructs many key life decisions into algorithms that can lead to optimal decision-making. As it cogently reviews many basic concepts using a wide range of life examples, I can see…