Cancer genetics is extremely complex, leading to a confusing array of management guidelines that can be hard for both patients and providers to follow. We are building and testing an APP (Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tool) to simplify the process of finding the guidelines that apply to a specific patient with a specific mutation who has a specific clinical situation.. Residents/students who participate can be involved in specific aspects that suit their interest, ranging from parsing human readable standards into machine readable rules to coding to analyzing the impact of the standards on patients in our clinic. Projects will be assigned based on the interests of the student/ resident.
Management is based on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines, which have become more comprehensive and more complete over time.
Learn more about the role of AI in managing complexity and how we are developing a Clinical Decision Support tool that will simplify managing carriers. The prototype has been used in our Hereditary Cancer Clinic on over 700 patients.
Interested in learning more? Visit the HCC Hereditary Cancer Clinic.
