{"id":245969,"date":"2026-10-26T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ai-based-computer-model-offers-new-weapon-against-hard-to-treat-cancers"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:14:53","slug":"ai-based-computer-model-offers-new-weapon-against-hard-to-treat-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ai-based-computer-model-offers-new-weapon-against-hard-to-treat-cancers","title":{"rendered":"AI-based computer model offers new weapon against hard-to-treat cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a new paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports-medicine\/fulltext\/S2666-3791(26)00536-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Cell Reports Medicine<\/i>, the UCL team outlines how they, in collaboration with a University of Cambridge team, developed a new type of treatment-predicting computer program that uses an individual\u2019s detailed genetic fingerprint to explore which treatments, if any, may kill their cancer\u2014especially when standard treatments have failed.<\/p>\n<p>Computer models have long been used in cancer medicine, and more recently artificial intelligence has opened up a new avenue in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u201cblack box\u201d nature of \u201ctraditional\u201d AI associated with large language models\u2014where how they arrive at their conclusions is unclear\u2014has prompted a degree of skepticism among the medical profession, the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new paper published in Cell Reports Medicine, the UCL team outlines how they, in collaboration with a University of Cambridge team, developed a new type of treatment-predicting computer program that uses an individual\u2019s detailed genetic fingerprint to explore which treatments, if any, may kill their cancer\u2014especially when standard treatments have failed. Computer models [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}