Identifications of Similarity Metrics for Patients With Cancer: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the similarities of patients with cancer is essential to advancing personalized medicine, improving patient outcomes, and developing more effective and individualized treatments. It enables researchers to discover important patterns, biomarkers, and treatment strategies that can have a significant impact on cancer research and oncology. In addition, the identification of previously successfully treated patients supports oncologists in making treatment decisions for a new patient who is clinically or molecularly similar to the previous patient.

Objective

The planned review aims to systematically summarize, map, and describe existing evidence to understand how patient similarity is defined and used in cancer research and clinical care.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Manuilova I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411229 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature