Viewing cancer treatment as a game to find strategies that improve patient outcomes
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Game theory can be utilized to identify potential flaws in current cancer treatment approaches and suggest new strategies to improve outcomes in patients with metastatic cancer, according to a new article. The study challenges the decades old standard of treatment for metastatic cancers in which drugs are typically administered continuously at the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) until the tumor progresses.