Cancer Care by Committee to be Superseded by Personal Physician-Patient Partnership Informed by Artificial Intelligence.
J Harvey TurnerPublished in: Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals (2023)
Multidisciplinary tumor boards (MTBs) have become the reference standard of cancer management, founded upon randomized controlled trial (RCT) evidence-based guidelines. The inordinate delays inherent in awaiting formal regulatory agency approvals of novel therapeutic agents, and the rigidities and nongeneralizability of this regimented approach, often deny cancer patients timely access to effective innovative treatment. Reluctance of MTBs to accept theranostic care of patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer resulted in decades of delay in the incorporation of 177 Lu-octreotate and 177 Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) into routine clinical oncology practice. Recent developments in immunotherapy and molecular targeted precision therapy, based on N-of-One individual multifactorial genome analyses, have greatly increased the complexity of decision-making. Burgeoning specialist workload and tight time frames now threaten to overwhelm the logistically, and emotionally, demanding MTB system. It is hypothesized that the advent of advanced artificial intelligence technology and Chatbot natural language algorithms will shift the cancer care paradigm from a MTB management model toward a personal physician-patient shared-care partnership for real-world practice of precision individualized holistic oncology.
Keyphrases
- artificial intelligence
- palliative care
- machine learning
- prostate cancer
- primary care
- quality improvement
- deep learning
- healthcare
- big data
- randomized controlled trial
- neuroendocrine tumors
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- emergency department
- decision making
- case report
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- radical prostatectomy
- clinical practice
- squamous cell carcinoma
- small cell lung cancer
- papillary thyroid
- autism spectrum disorder
- photodynamic therapy
- study protocol
- blood brain barrier
- transcription factor
- pet ct
- pain management
- squamous cell
- clinical trial
- benign prostatic hyperplasia
- stem cells
- systematic review
- affordable care act
- single molecule
- genome wide
- fluorescence imaging
- mesenchymal stem cells
- lymph node metastasis
- combination therapy
- smoking cessation
- pet imaging
- drug administration