A Machine Learning Tool Uncloaks the Hidden Sources of Cancer Cells

Image caption: Machine learning could soon help physicians determine the source of cancers with no known origin. © iStock, Metamorworks. Article by Rachael Moeller Gorman. The Scientist – October 5, 2023. Study: Machine learning for genetics-based classification and treatment response prediction in cancer of unknown primary published in Nature.

Most tumors continuously shed cells; many die, but some survive, circulating throughout the body, settling elsewhere, and forming new, metastatic tumors. To effectively treat patients with metastatic cancer, physicians must pinpoint where these cells originally came from, but in three to five percent of cases a standard diagnostic workup fails to do […]

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