Ethical Design of Data-Driven Decision Support Tools for Improving Cancer Care: Embedded Ethics Review of the 4D PICTURE Project.

ABSTRACT: Oncology patients often face complex choices between treatment regimens with different risk-benefit ratios. The 4D PICTURE (Producing Improved Cancer Outcomes Through User-Centered Research) project aims to support patients, their families, and clinicians with these complex decisions by developing data-driven decision support tools (DSTs) for patients with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and melanoma as part of care path redesign using a methodology called MetroMapping. There are myriad ethical issues to consider as the project will create data-driven prognostic models and develop conversation tools using artificial intelligence while including patient perspectives by setting up boards of experiential experts in 8 different countries. This paper aims to review the key ethical challenges re

SUBMITTER: Bak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12022531 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature