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Advancing Precision Medicine: Unveiling Disease Trajectories, Decoding Biomarkers, And Tailoring Individual Treatments, Yanfei Wang
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Chronic diseases are not only prevalent but also exert a considerable strain on the healthcare system, individuals, and communities. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease, which is still growing. The development of machine learning has brought new directions to chronic disease analysis. Many data scientists have devoted themselves to understanding how a disease progresses over time, which can lead to better patient management, identification of disease stages, and targeted interventions. However, due to the slow progression of chronic disease, symptoms are barely noticed until the disease is advanced, challenging early detection. Meanwhile, chronic diseases …
Gene Expression–Based Algorithms For The Identification Of Drug Combinations In Personalized Medicine, Lon Fong
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Three of the major problems facing cancer therapeutics are 1) drug resistance, the intrinsic or acquired ability of cancer cells to evade the effect of the therapies used to treat them; 2) heterogeneity among individual patients’ disease at the molecular level and the resulting variability in therapeutic response; and 3) the limitations of genomics biomarkers in matching patients to the most effective therapy. One possible solution to drug resistance is the use of combination therapies rather than monotherapies. Use of multiple drugs, each with a different mechanism of action, lowers the chances that the cancer cells will develop or have …