Chatbots Not Always Reliable for Cancer Treatment Advice
Chatbots had mixed results when it came to providing direct-to-patient cancer-related advice and treatment strategies for a wide variety of cancers, according to two studies in JAMA Oncology. When testing GPT-3.5 (OpenAI) with prompts designed to obtain treatment strategies for different kinds of cancers, they found that while most answers were in accordance with National […]
New insights into melanoma brain metastases
Brain metastasis is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths and occurs very frequently in patients with advanced melanoma. Although new immunotherapies are effective in some patients with melanoma brain metastases, little is known about the reasons for melanoma’s spread to the brain and the lower response rates to many therapies. Columbia researchers […]
Too Many Black Men Are Dying From Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer remains the second highest cancer-related cause of death in men in the U.S., and there has been a worrisome trend of rising metastatic disease at diagnosis. These facts make it increasingly important that the urological community and the patients we serve turn our attention to ways to overcome these challenges. The Role of […]