Increasing Clinical Trial Accrual via Automated Matching of Biomarker Criteria.

Pac Symp Biocomput

Departments of Biomedical Data Science and of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA,

Published: March 2021

Successful implementation of precision oncology requires both the deployment of nucleic acid sequencing panels to identify clinically actionable biomarkers, and the efficient screening of patient biomarker eligibility to on-going clinical trials and therapies. This process is typically performed manually by biocurators, geneticists, pathologists, and oncologists; however, this is a time-intensive, and inconsistent process amongst healthcare providers. We present the development of a feature matching algorithmic pipeline that identifies patients who meet eligibility criteria of precision medicine clinical trials via genetic biomarkers and apply it to patients undergoing treatment at the Stanford Cancer Center. This study demonstrates, through our patient eligibility screening algorithm that leverages clinical sequencing derived biomarkers with precision medicine clinical trials, the successful use of an automated algorithmic pipeline as a feasible, accurate and effective alternative to the traditional manual clinical trial curation.

Download full-text PDF

Source

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

clinical trials
12
clinical trial
8
algorithmic pipeline
8
precision medicine
8
medicine clinical
8
clinical
5
increasing clinical
4
trial accrual
4
accrual automated
4
automated matching
4

Similar Publications

Background: Clinical decision support systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly integrated into health care practices, including pharmacy medication verification. Communicating uncertainty in an AI prediction is viewed as an important mechanism for boosting human collaboration and trust. Yet, little is known about the effects on human cognition as a result of interacting with such types of AI advice.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Black adults in the United States experience disproportionately high rates of tobacco- and obesity-related diseases, driven in part by disparities in smoking cessation and physical activity. Smartphone-based interventions with financial incentives offer a scalable solution to address these health disparities.

Objective: This study aims to assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a mobile health intervention that provides financial incentives for smoking cessation and physical activity among Black adults.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Identifying Adolescent and Young Adults' Preferences for Oncology Symptom Management Clinical Trial Participation.

Cancer Nurs

January 2025

Author Affiliations: Department of Health and Clinical Sciences, University of Michigan School of Nursing (Dr Knoerl and Mss Smener and Grandinetti); Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School (Drs Fecher, Henry, Karimi, Pettit, and Schuetze); Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (Dr Walling); and School of Social Work, University of Michigan (Dr Zhang), Ann Arbor; and College of Nursing, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Dr Barton).

Background: Most studies to date exploring facilitators and barriers to adolescent and young adults' (AYAs') participation in clinical trials have been focused on external factors to AYAs' participation or recruitment strategies.

Objective: The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine AYA cancer survivors' preferences for oncology symptom management clinical trial participation.

Methods: Semistructured interviews and conjoint analysis were conducted to clarify potential attributes (eg, characteristics) and levels (eg, value of the characteristic) that may be important to AYA cancer survivors when considering clinical trial participation (n = 19).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Importance: While corticosteroid administration in septic shock has been shown to result in faster shock reversal and lower short-term mortality, the role of corticosteroids in the management of cardiogenic shock (CS) remains unexplored.

Objectives: Determine the impact of corticosteroid administration on 90-day mortality (primary outcome) in patients admitted to a critical care unit with CS.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In this retrospective cohort study, we used the critical care database of Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV, and included all adult patients diagnosed with CS excluding repeated admissions, patients with adrenal insufficiency, those receiving baseline corticosteroids, and those requiring extracorporeal life support.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Recent advances in immunotherapy for cervical cancer.

Int J Clin Oncol

January 2025

Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, 1397-1 Yamane, Hidaka-shi, Saitama, 350-1298, Japan.

Cervical cancer is the third most common malignant tumor in women worldwide in terms of both incidence and mortality. The field of cervical cancer treatment is rapidly evolving, and various combination therapies are being explored to enhance the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) and provide new treatment options for patients at different disease stages. Clinical trials involving immune checkpoint inhibitors are now being conducted following a phase 3 trial with cemiplimab, an ICI, which demonstrated a significant improvement in prognosis in advanced or metastatic cervical cancer patients.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!