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🇪🇺 Systems cancer biologist. 🧬 Lab Head @ICR_London. 🩺 Consultant medical oncologist @royalmarsdenNHS. 🎯 Advancing Personalised Breast Cancer Medicine.
Dec 7, 2021 14 tweets 16 min read
1/14 🆕 🚨Accelerated article on #breastcancer just out in @nature! #bcsm

We asked:
1️⃣ What drives response to #chemotherapy in #breast #cancer
2️⃣ Can we use #machinelearning to predict response to chemotherapy❓

Link: nature.com/articles/s4158…

A 🧵👇👇👇 @OncoAlert 2/14 We are unable to #predict #response to treatment in clinic…

✅Good response ➡️treatment very effective ➡️better survival
❌Poorer response ➡️treatment less effective ➡️worse survival

Being able to forecast response would be a landmark advance!