Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA)

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Panel 2: Effects on the ground: experiences of AI in cancer surgery and treatment

Emilio Alba

Director of Medical Oncology Intercenter Unit of Regional and Virgen de la Victoria University Hospitals. Málaga, Spain

Director of Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Group University of Malaga

Thursday, 27 May, 2021

Galén

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NURSING

Tumors, First visits, Successive consultations, Emergencies.

PATIENTS MANAGEMENT

GENETIC COUNSELING

Data analysis flow, personalized medicineLABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER

Assessment, vital signs, nutrition, mobility, rest

Trial and patient managementCLINICAL TRIALS

INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS

Text mining and NLP. Predictive medicine. Web mining. Advanced data analysis

First visit, subsequent consultations and annotations

Natural language processing

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Structured data

Unstructured data

20%

80%

Diagnosis

Visits

Demographic data

Procedures

Treatments …

Lab results

Radiology reports

Images

Clinical notes

Discharge reports

Easy to analyze

Low level of abstraction

Lack of context

Difficult to handle, clean and analyze

They need to transform and harmonize

They provide context

Hybrids

• Text mining• Artificial intelligence• Natural language

processing

RWE #1. Prediction of progression in metastatic patients

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610 patients HER2- and RH+

Galén 3.0

Consultations

Emergencies

First vis its

0 6 60

Time from first treatment to recurrence

HT

HT-IC

CHT

CHT + HT

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Ribelles N et al. EJC 2021

Performance metrics of machine learning models

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Conclusions

Natural language processing is a non biological tool that allows us to find clinically relevant patterns useful in cancer treatment.