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â€Å"Physicians themselves are notoriously bad at estimating prognosis in patients with cancer, and overly optimistic estimates can influence patients’ chemotherapy decisions†(Obermyer, 2017, p. 3). As such, it is imperative that an accurate means of predicting patients’ risks and outcomes with regards to chemotherapy be found and used in clinical application. The three articles studied in this review use very different methods of predicting patient outcomes, and prove more accurate than the current â€Å"predictions... from randomized trials of individual chemotherapies, or SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) estimates†(Obermyer, 2017, p. 18). Regardless of their apparent successes, there is room for improvement in all three†¦show more content†¦The Harvard team also generalized cancer into only 6 sub-categories: colorectal, non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, breast and prostate cancer. It would be interesting to see if the accuracy of the machine learning algorithm would increase with increased specificity of diagnosis of cancer. Overall, this study had an extraordinarily large data set (7000+) and their analyses of the data is well planned. That said, more in-depth categorization of cancers and further data with regards to overall patient health during and before diagnosis, prior to treatment, would prove immensely informative and helpful. The second article, â€Å"A framework to translate preclinical findings to the clinic†, created a â€Å"computational framework to implement phase i trials (virtual/imaginary yet informed clinical trials) using an experimentally calibrated mathematical model of melanoma combination therapy†(Kim, 2015, p. 2). 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