DECRYPTION – By revealing anomalies inaccessible to human faculties, artificial intelligence is establishing itself as the doctor’s number one assistant.
In January 2020, a 30-year-old young man with metastases throughout his body was treated in the medical oncology department of the Institut Curie. The prognosis is bad. A cancer of unknown origin has spread to other tissues without it being possible to identify the first organ affected. You should know that metastases affecting other tissues retain the characteristics of the primary tumour. They therefore remain cells of the first organ. It is essential to find the source in order to be able to apply the most appropriate drug treatment rather than broad-spectrum probabilistic chemotherapy, which would have little effectiveness.
Sarah Watson, researcher and oncologist at the Institut Curie, and Julien Vibert, science thesis student and specialist in bioinformatics, have the idea of using a new tool recently developed within the Research Center of the ‘Institut Curie: artificial intelligence applied to the analysis of genetic data of…
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