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I VA Collaborates With IBM
n 2011, Jeopardy fans watched in awe as an IBM computer known as Watson (shown below) beat previ-
ous Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Today, a variation of Watson’s revolutionary cognitive tech- nology is helping VA cancer specialists treat patients more effectively. Watson is on loan to the VA’s pre- cision oncology program, a result of President Barack Obama’s cancer “moonshot” initiative. The technol- ogy will be used to analyze genomic information as well as sift through and scale down the overwhelming amount of clinical cancer data to help doctors determine the best treatment options. As many as 10,000 VA cancer patients are expected to benefit over the two- year period, says Steve Harvey, vice president of Watson Health.
“The challenge with precision medicine today is that there is too much knowledge being generated for physicians to be able to keep up,” Harvey explains. “Last year, for example, more than 160,000 cancer studies were published on the website
www.pubmed.gov. So the challenge really becomes how can we go through that information quickly and make sense of it? That’s what Watson is helping with.” Dr. Michael J.
Kelley, the VA’s national pro- gram director for oncology, says Watson will be extremely help- ful in interpreting
the results of DNA testing in cancer patients. “A lot of different data is needed to determine how to apply the results of that test to an individ- ual patient,” Kelley notes. “Watson aggregates large sets of data and organizes them in a way that can be applied to an individual patient’s tu- mor’s test results.” According to the VA, approximate-
ly 40,000 cancer cases are reported within the VA system each year. “The VA is the largest cohort of cancer patients in the United States,” reports Harvey. “It represents about 3.5 percent of all cancer patients
in the nation.” — Don Vaughan
online: Read the full “VA Collaborates With IBM” story online at
www.moaa.org/watson. PHOTOS: ABOVE, CLOCKREADY; TOP, SEAMAN DARTEZ C. WILLIAMS, USN
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