The University of California San Diego Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, working in conjunction with startup CureMatch and UCSD's Supercomputer Center, claims that a precision medicine clinical decision support system provided treatment guidance for a patient after doctors were unsuccessful.
A 57-year old man, in fact, had undergone four previous lines of treatment. Despite surgery for several basal cell carcinomas, he developed brain, bone and liver metastases and was subsequently treated with two separate targeted therapies that are FDA-approved for metastatic basal cell carcinomas, but was non-responsive to these therapies. He also received Gamma knife radiation for brain metastases with good response, and chemotherapy was administered but that response was short-lived.
That's when the UCSD divisions and CureMatch came together, according to Razelle Kurzrock, MD, CureMatch co-founder and chief of the division of hematology and oncology at the UCSD School of Medicine. She also is senior deputy director at the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy.
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Source: Healthcare IT News (View full article)
Posted by Dan Corcoran on November 10, 2017 06:59 AM
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