Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, MD, Delivers Keynote Speech at NCODA International Spring Forum
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly changed the management of colorectal cancer and other malignancies, argued Massive Bio Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, MD, in his keynote speech at the 2023 NCODA International Spring Forum, which was held March 15-17, 2023, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Loaiza-Bonilla noted that over the past decade, there has been a steady shift in oncology away fromclassifying and treating cancers strictly based on where a tumor exists in the body. The location of a tumor doesn’t necessarily accurately predict how it will behave or respond to treatment. Instead, patient prognosis and treatment decisions are increasingly informed by the use of biological or molecular markers—commonly known as biomarkers, said Loaiza-Bonilla. Looking to the future, Loaiza-Bonilla noted that the next revolution will be the development of biomarker multi-omics analysis, which will be capable of measuring an even broader set of important disease-influencing molecules, such as epigenetic markers, mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites in our cells. AI will play a key role in interpreting all of this new data.