Chapter

Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making

From Future of Cancer Science | AACR Cancer Progress Report 2025 by Sambif

Concepts

1. Digital Twins

   "AI-driven technologies are improving clinicians’ ability to predict patient outcomes and personalize treatment plans. Digital twins—virtual, continuously updated models of individual patients—are one

2. Clinical Support

   "Another emerging application for AI is in cancer surgery. In a recent study, an AI-powered 3D reconstruction system significantly improved lung surgery planning by more accurately identifying critica

3. Treatment Response

   "Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is an aggressive form of bladder cancer in which the tumor grows into the muscle layer of the bladder wall. Because of its higher risk of spreading beyond the bl

4. Data Integration

   "Researchers have also applied techniques from natural language processing (NLP)—a field of AI that includes tools, such as LLMs, that allow computers to understand and use human language—to extract i