How AI could transform cancer treatment and medicine
Researchers are now using artificial intelligence to help tailor cancer treatments and uncover overlooked uses for existing medicines.Other systems can search microscopic images or identify subtle biological signals that people could easily miss.Some of these technologies have already helped patients.
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(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post/Getty Images)One of the biggest recent developments comes from Moderna and Merck.On Aug.
19, the companies announced positive topline results from a Phase 3 melanoma trial.The study tested intismeran autogene, also known as V940 or mRNA-4157, alongside Keytruda.
The trial enrolled 1,137 people with high-risk melanoma that surgeons had completely removed.The combination met its primary endpoint for recurrence-free survival.
It also met a key secondary endpoint measuring distant metastasis-free survival.Merck and Moderna said this was the first positive Phase 3 readout for an indivi...