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    Doctors Are Turning to Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Cancer Patients

    Precision medicine is changing how cancer is diagnosed.
    by David H. Freedman Jul 26, 2019 2 minutes
    FE_Cancer_Sidebar_Stanley Robboy
    FE_Cancer_Sidebar_Stanley Robboy

    Genetic testing gets most of the attention when it comes to matching cancer patients to specific treatments. But the vast majority of diagnostic information used in selecting a cancer treatment today comes not from those tests, but from under the microscope of the pathologist, who examines tissue biopsies taken during surgery. Stanley Robboy, vice-chair for diagnostic pathology at the Duke's David H. Freedman about how artificial intelligence is improving diagnoses—and why some doctors are reluctant to embrace it.

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