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Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Improving Patient Interactions and Experience

December 11, 2023

In this seventh episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss how artificial intelligence tools may be utilized to improve wait time for treatment, to provide more time for provider-patient interactions, and more.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Potential Role in Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, Staging

December 04, 2023

In this sixth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss potential opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence tools in cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, and prognosis.

Patient and Family Interpretations of the Language of Cancer Care

December 01, 2023

This commentary examines the use of words and expressions in the oncology domain and the implications of different interpretations by patients and their families from professionals employing this language, including academic authors and members of their clinical teams.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Call for Evidence

November 27, 2023

In this fifth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss the need for evidence to support the utilization of different artificial intelligence tools in healthcare.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: A Diverse Editorial Board

November 20, 2023

In this fourth episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain the importance of having a diverse editorial board behind a new journal on artificial intelligence in precision oncology.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: A New Journal

November 13, 2023

In this third episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, discuss the launch of a new journal that will focus on educating the field on the latest research efforts being made with artificial intelligence.

Dr Markman on Pragmatic Clinical Trial Designs in Ovarian Cancer

November 09, 2023

Maurie Markman, MD, discusses the importance of designing clinical trials for patients with ovarian cancer that are based on real-world data and consider the increasing complexity of treatment sequencing in this disease.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Potential for Precision Medicine

November 06, 2023

In this second episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, explain how artificial intelligence tools may be leveraged in the oncology field to provide personalized care.

Reality Takes a Back Seat to Rhetoric Used in Objective Assessments of Cancer Treatment

November 06, 2023

It is time for society to address the critical nature of our current unsustainable oncology pharmaceutical marketplace, and it is also essential that whatever solutions are proposed and implemented do not incorporate inappropriate labeling of outcomes that negate meaningful measures of clinical benefit.

Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology: Definitions and Goals

October 30, 2023

In this first episode of OncChats: Assessing the Promise of AI in Oncology, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, and Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, FACCC, define artificial intelligence and highlight the goals of these tools in healthcare.

Artificial Technology and the Future of Cancer Care: The Good, Bad and Potentially Very Ugly

October 25, 2023

It is difficult to browse a major medical journal these days and not find an article, commentary, or editorial that discusses the objectively rather profound implications for clinical science and health care delivery resulting from simply stunning advances in computer technology in the arena of artificial intelligence.

Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer: Looking to the Future

October 10, 2023

In this final episode of OncChats: Leveraging Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer, Toufic A. Kachaamy, MD, Madappa Kundranda, MD, PhD, and Tamas A. Gonda, MD, reiterate that the role of endoscopic therapies in pancreatic cancer continues to evolve.

Revumenib Meets CR/CRh End Point in KMT2A-Rearranged Relapsed/Refractory AML/ALL

October 02, 2023

Treatment with the first-in-class menin inhibitor revumenib generated complete remissions or complete remissions with partial hematological recovery in adult and pediatric patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia harboring KMT2A rearrangements.

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