AI is helping to make treatment for cancer more bearable

Researchers from MIT are using artificial intelligence to make treatment for cancer less debilitating but just as effective for patients. The AI learns from historical patient data to determine what the lowest doses and frequencies of medication delivered the desired results to shrink tumours. In some cases, the monthly administration of doses was reduced to just twice per year while achieving the same goal. Based on a trial of fifty patients, treatments were reduced to between a quarter and...