Treat cancer like a game

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3168, 2018, pág. 4
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Approaching cancer treatment as a game has doubled the survival time of men with advanced prostate cancer. This achievement could mark the start of using game theory to target a range of cancers more cleverly. "This approach is elegant and exciting, and shows real promise to delay treatment failure," says Charles Swanton at the Francis Crick Institute in London. People with cancer aren't usually killed by their initial tumor, but by the rapidly evolving secondary tumors that occur once the disease has spread. To work out how each case of cancer is evolving, Robert Gatenby and his colleagues at the Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Florida created an algorithm. Built using clinical data, it also suggests the best treatment regime to maximize a person's survival. This enables the team to use game theory to keep the upper hand over cancer