Publications by authors named "R T Haken"

AI decision support systems can assist clinicians in planning adaptive treatment strategies that can dynamically react to individuals' cancer progression for effective personalized care. However, AI's imperfections can lead to suboptimal therapeutics if clinicians over or under rely on AI. To investigate such collaborative decision-making process, we conducted a Human-AI interaction study on response-adaptive radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Purpose: NRG-RTOG0617 demonstrated a detrimental effect of uniform high-dose radiation in stage III non-small cell lung cancer. NRG-RTOG1106/ECOG-ACRIN6697 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01507428), a randomized phase II trial, studied whether midtreatment F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) can guide individualized/adaptive dose-intensified radiotherapy (RT) to improve and predict outcomes in patients with this disease.

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Article Synopsis
  • This clinical trial aimed to improve treatment outcomes for patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by using adaptive radiation therapy that tailors the treatment based on the patient's response, while minimizing side effects like lung and esophageal toxicity.
  • A total of 47 patients participated, receiving personalized radiation doses based on imaging techniques (FDG-PET and SPECT) to maximize the dose to the tumor while sparing healthy lung tissue.
  • Results showed manageable toxicity levels after one year, with 21.3% experiencing grade 2 pneumonitis and 66.0% grade 2 esophagitis, while striving for better local control and overall survival.
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Background: Adaptive treatment strategies that can dynamically react to individual cancer progression can provide effective personalized care. Longitudinal multi-omics information, paired with an artificially intelligent clinical decision support system (AI-CDSS) can assist clinicians in determining optimal therapeutic options and treatment adaptations. However, AI-CDSS is not perfectly accurate, as such, clinicians' over/under reliance on AI may lead to unintended consequences, ultimately failing to develop optimal strategies.

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