Cancer World Newsletter - A calculated choice: The role of decision-making tools in personalising treatment

Tailoring treatment options to the disease and the patient in front of you is becoming too big a job for one brain, which is why doctors are increasingly using computer aids to decision making. This Cutting Edge article looks at the proliferation of these sorts of online tools. It hears from oncologists who argue that it is now unethical not to use them in reaching complex treatment decisions, and it asks what sort of validation should be required before new tools can be trusted. What do you think? Do you welcome tools that integrate all the staging, grading, genomic, imaging and side effects data for you? Is it an abdication of responsibility, turning the art of medicine into a process of number crunching? Which tools do you trust and why?  You can read the article here. Press the comment button at the end and share your views.