Most deaths from melanoma—the most lethal form of skin cancer—occur in patients who were initially diagnosed with early-stage melanoma and then later experienced a recurrence that is typically not detected until it has spread or metastasized.
A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently developed an artificial intelligence–based method to predict which patients are most likely to experience a recurrence and are therefore expected to benefit from aggressive treatment. The method was validated in a study published in npj Precision Oncology.
