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Deep Learning Model Proves Useful in Head and Neck Cancer Care

Learn about this model that predicts survival and disease outcome in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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Deadline Extended: Submit Your Abstract for the Ninth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop by August 14

CAFCW23 brings together data and computational scientists, cancer biologists, and developers interested in accelerating the progress of computationally and data-driven cancer research and clinical applications.

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Personalized Calculator Predicts Oral Cancer Survival

Discover how SEER data and statistical models can help personalize oral cancer treatments.

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Deep Learning Tool Predicts Risk for Pancreatic Cancer

NCI-funded researchers collaborated with scientists from Denmark to develop a deep learning tool for predicting risk for pancreatic cancer, an aggressive cancer that’s difficult to diagnose in the early stages of disease.

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CCDI Central Hub Links Researchers to Childhood Cancer Data Resources

NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative has a new online Hub. If you’re a researcher, doctor, or citizen scientist, you now have quick-and-easy access to a rapidly growing inventory of data, tools, and resources on childhood cancer data.

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Publications Highlight the Power of Deep Learning for Cancer Drug Response Prediction

Explore these two articles, both published by members of the NCI and Department of Energy Collaboration!

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Machine Learning Tool Offers Insight Into Cancer Treatment for Older Patients

NCI-funded researchers used a machine learning approach to identify patients who were most likely to benefit, or have adverse effects, from cancer treatment late in life.

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Deep Learning Model Helps Tailor Screening Protocol for Lung Cancer Risk

NCI-funded researchers collaborated with scientists from NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and Division of Cancer Prevention on a study using a deep learning model to prioritize screening for lung cancer.

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NCI-Funded Challenge Advances Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Detection

Discover how the algorithms produced in this challenge performed in detecting breast cancer.

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NCI Data Science at the 2023 AACR Annual Meeting

Planning your itinerary for this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Want to make sure you catch the NCI-affiliated data science activities? We’ve put together a helpful reference page for you!

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