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Adam Pennycuick

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Lung Oncologist @UCLH | Bioinformatician @lungsforliving | Founder @oslrapp researchbriefing.com | Early lung cancer, prevention, MedEd, all things data 👨‍💻

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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I grew up inspired by Attenborough's infectious enthusiasm for nature. Here my dad Colin has a cameo as Sir David narrates his work tracking swan migrations. It's a glimpse into the Pennycuick household of the 1990s, when Attenborough's Life series were required viewing! Wishing a very happy 100th.
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you have a business idea in oncology do check this out, it's a fantastic programme. Applications open now www.cancertechaccelerator.co.uk
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Cancer Tech Accelerator | Accelerate Your Research
Applications are open for the 2026 cohort!
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
AlphaMissense promises powerful AI for pathogenic variant identification. Is it clinically useful? Smart validation approach here against known signatures ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Could we “see” intratumoral CD4 cells in vivo with PET? That’s the promise of this novel tracer. Very cool if it works www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Night shifts increase lung cancer risk - and there's more to it than smoking. Very interesting BioBank analysis here academic.oup.com/sleep/advanc.... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Immunotherapy tox is not always bad; can lead to better outcomes. More data on this in the post-CRT NSCLC setting bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Impact of irae characteristics on efficacy of consolidative immunotherapy following chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced NSCLC - BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Background Consolidative PD-L1 inhibitors after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) have become standard care in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC). However, the correlation…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is a compelling vision of how AI agents will improve our treatment decisions in future www.nature.com/articles/s43.... Impressive progress but still a way from the clinic. Found with researchbriefing.com
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Development and validation of an autonomous artificial intelligence agent for clinical decision-making in oncology - Nature Cancer
Ferber et al. present an autonomous artificial intelligence agent system for deployment of specialized medical oncology computational tools, validating their system across various clinical scenarios…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I’ve always struggled with dermatology. Never good at identifying skin problems. Now AI can do it for us, and better www.nature.com/articles/s41... - need this in EPIC ASAP! Found with researchbriefing.com
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A multimodal vision foundation model for clinical dermatology - Nature Medicine
Trained on large and multicenter datasets with different imaging modalities, a foundation model is shown to have strong performance on the full spectrum of clinically relevant tasks and to increase…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
First line ipi nivo for mNSCLC. 19% still responding at 6y. We don’t use this combo but I’m sure there are some patients who would benefit, if we could target them better www.esmoopen.com/article/S205... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Cancers are complex. This study shows moving from simple biomarkers to more complex models can improve outcomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Real-world performance analysis of a universal computational reasoning model for precision oncology in lung cancer - npj Precision Oncology
npj Precision Oncology - Real-world performance analysis of a universal computational reasoning model for precision oncology in lung cancer
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Patients with COPD do better on immunotherapy www.nature.com/articles/s41... Found with researchbriefing.com
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COPD patients with non-small cell lung cancer respond better to anti-PD-(L)1 immune checkpoint inhibitors - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - COPD patients with non-small cell lung cancer respond better to anti-PD-(L)1 immune checkpoint inhibitors
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In genomics we tend to think in 1D sequences. Great study shows we need think in 3D www.nature.com/articles/s41... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Three-dimensional genome landscape of primary human cancers - Nature Genetics
This study characterizes the three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture of 15 primary human cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas. The analyses identify different archetypes of enhancer usage and…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
How old you look is a better predictor of outcome than how old you are. Another smart AI application shows prognostic value of FaceAge predictor in cancer patients buff.ly/e275kVV Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Spatial profiling of precancerous lung lesions identifies TIM3 as a potential interception target www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Fantastic study. Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can we improve immunotherapy responses by depleting regulatory T-cells? Encouraging data in GBM www.cell.com/immunity/ful... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Can we predict patient outcomes by… asking them? Longitudinal analysis of PRO data suggests we can aacrjournals.org/clincancerre... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Love this use of AI. Reviewed >600k oncology patient messages to find their main care issues. Great to focus future improvements jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Clonal haematopoeisis; important in ageing and now associated with worse outcomes when infiltrating tumours. More great work from the TRACERx team www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
In scRNAseq how do you find tumour cells? This approach makes sense to me, using CNA profiles inferred from the transcriptome academic.oup.com/bib/article/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Antibiotics can affect immunotherapy efficacy via the microbiome. Should be used with caution. Helpful and detailed guide: ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Adding RT to peri-op chemoIO improves MPR but not OS/PFS www.jto.org/article/S155... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
MetaGP - medical foundation model improves diagnostic performance of doctors buff.ly/WzRk39a Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This got me thinking about neoadjuvant trial design. Phase II neoadj EGFR inhibitor declared a success due to high conversion rate to resectability in unresectable stage III disease www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)
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Neoadjuvant Aumolertinib for unresectable stage III EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer: a single-arm phase II trial - Nature Communications
Aumolertinib is a third generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors, approved for use in patients with advanced EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, the authors report a phase 2…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Exosomes are definitely interesting for early cancer detection. AI-powered exosome detection using microfluidics seems like a smart approach buff.ly/rKqTrXu Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Can LLMs design proteins now? Enzymes designed with natural language prompts... incredible... buff.ly/nSvYH9Z Found with researchbriefing.com
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Toward De Novo Protein Design from Natural Language
De novo protein design represents a fundamental pursuit in protein engineering, yet current deep learning approaches remain constrained by their narrow design scope. Here we present Pinal, a…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
People at germline risk of autoimmune diseases also at risk of ICI tox. Makes sense - could lead to better personalisation in future buff.ly/qj0KnOh Found with researchbriefing.com
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Germline prediction of immune checkpoint inhibitor discontinuation for immune-related adverse events
Introduction Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can yield remarkable clinical responses in subsets of patients with solid tumors, but they also commonly cause immune-related adverse events (irAEs).…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Could protein translation defects lead to more immunogenic cancers? Could we exploit this vulnerability? Study of key translation proteins suggests so buff.ly/C6PKdF4 Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Here's a good question - if AI is so good at radiology interpretation, can we reduce the radiation dose? Study suggests you can, and AI copes fine with reduced quality buff.ly/GkzyUN5 Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
DCIS recurrence is not the same as DCIS progression. Fascinating evolutionary study with important implications breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Evolutionary measures show that recurrence of DCIS is distinct from progression to breast cancer - Breast Cancer Research
Background Progression from pre-cancers like ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to invasive disease (cancer) is driven by somatic evolution and is altered by clinical interventions. We hypothesized that…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Serum VEGF-A as a biomarker for bevacizumab? Intriguing data www.nature.com/articles/s41... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Serum VEGF-A as a biomarker for the addition of bevacizumab to chemo-immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC - Nature Communications
This prospective study conducted in a phase 3 trial has shown that pre-treatment serum VEGF-A was a negative biomarker for PFS in patients with advanced NSCLC treated with a combination of an…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Why do some never smokers get lung cancer? Some important genetic risks identified here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is great. Are radiologists really better with AI assistants? This study used “Sham AI” models as controls. Smart approach! pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Remarkable accuracy of this AI model for lung cancer CTs. Trained and assessed on public CTs though, I wonder how it would perform on real data buff.ly/fKN53bc Found with researchbriefing.com
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Ensemble-based multiclass lung cancer classification using hybrid CNN-SVD feature extraction and selection method
Lung cancer (LC) is a leading cause of cancer-related fatalities worldwide, underscoring the urgency of early detection for improved patient outcomes. The main objective of this research is to…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Understanding cancer evolution needs longitudinal data. Great to see novel tools emerge as molecular profiling becomes more sophisticated www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Inferring Phylogenetic Trees of Cancer Evolution from Longitudinal Single-Cell Copy Number Profiles
Understanding evolutionary dynamics is critical for unraveling the complex progression of diseases such as cancer. Cancer evolution is inherently a temporal process driven by the accumulation of…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Interesting analysis of a large cohort of lung adenocarcinomas (>1000) with deep WGS and some multi-omics. Complex picture with interesting phenotypic relationships www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Deciphering lung adenocarcinoma evolution and the role of LINE-1 retrotransposition
Understanding lung cancer evolution can identify tools for intercepting its growth. In a landscape analysis of 1024 lung adenocarcinomas (LUAD) with deep whole-genome sequencing integrated with…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ecDNA increasingly relevant in multiple cancers. Brilliantly detailed dissection of MYC ecDNA role in pancreatic cancer here www.nature.com/articles/s41... Found with researchbriefing.com
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MYC ecDNA promotes intratumour heterogeneity and plasticity in PDAC - Nature
In a model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, extrachromosomal DNAs are shown to be a source of high-level focal amplification driving MYC heterogeneity and phenotypic adaptation.
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is the low hanging fruit for AI in oncology. Make the lives of doctors and patients easier. Seems simple but potentially huge ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
AI promises to improve lung cancer screening - but by how much exactly? Systematic review compares AI vs regression methods. Definitely improvement but with work to do buff.ly/qafgsbT Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We are always cautious of pemetrexed in renal impairment - are we being too cautious? Interesting data buff.ly/bDzXDzC Found with researchbriefing.com
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Safety and efficacy of pemetrexed for patients with non-small cell lung cancer in the setting of renal impairment: a retrospective study - BMC Cancer
Background Pemetrexed is a key treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and its usage is increasing. However, owing to treatment-related fatality in a patient with severe renal impairment…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Lung cancer interception trial using Sulforaphane. Lots of questions about the endpoints here but very exciting work - therapeutic prevention strategies are critical buff.ly/XDt5PtE Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Copy number evolution - critical in cancer and much less well understood than mutations. Interesting study mapping this process in CRC after APC loss buff.ly/4xJn0B1 Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trastuzumab rezetecan. Good to see more options coming through for HER2+ NSCLC buff.ly/3Xk6lK5 Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Which patients shed ctDNA? Good breakdown here buff.ly/iZzOU52 - essentially more aggressive disease = more ctDNA though lots of variation. Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Large cohort of young onset lung cancers from China highlights ERBB2 and ALK as important. Valuable data on this challenging population buff.ly/4bibJDr Found with researchbriefing.com
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Comprehensive characterization of early-onset lung cancer, in Chinese young adults - Nature Communications
Early-onset lung cancer in young adults remains poorly studied. Here, the authors analyse the clinicopathological, molecular, and immune features of early-onset non-small cell lung cancers in a…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Immunotherapy is new standard of care for small cell lung cancer. Real-world data suggests improvement in intracranial disease control as well as systemic buff.ly/3ERQA6S Found with researchbriefing.com
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Is VTE in lung cancer more prevalent than we think? Should we screen? Is D-dimer useful in cancer patients with modified thresholds? Thought-provoking data buff.ly/41hbDaA Found with researchbriefing.com
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Prospective assessment of venous thromboembolism in lung cancer patients using a standardized screening protocol | Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Drug resistance tracked at extraordinary molecular resolution. Brilliant paper illustrates how complex cancers are and the challenges facing cancer vaccines buff.ly/414qswQ Found with researchbriefing.com
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Clonal driver neoantigen loss under EGFR TKI and immune selection pressures - Nature
We show the evolution of a case of EGFR mutant lung cancer treated with a combination of erlotinib, osimertinib, radiotherapy and a personalized neopeptide vaccine targeting somatic mutations,…
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is just brilliant. New tool dissects immune profiles from WGS. Gives novel insights into >90k (!) tumours, highlights circulating immune changes buff.ly/41y6Hzz Found with researchbriefing.com
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ImmuneLENS characterizes systemic immune dysregulation in aging and cancer
Immune lymphocyte estimation from nucleotide sequencing (ImmuneLENS) infers B cell and T cell fractions from whole-genome sequencing data. Applied to the 100,000 Genomes Project datasets, circulating...
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So many studies on ICI response prediction. Meta analysis of cytokines highlights IL6 and IL10 buff.ly/3X9FKPV Found with researchbriefing.com
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Predictive value of serum cytokines in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer receiving anti-PD-1 blockade therapy: a meta-analysis
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Immunotherapy, particularly PD-1 inhibitors, has revolutionized the treatment landscape for NSCLC. However, the...
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Adam Pennycuick @adampennycuick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Radiopathomics”: multimodal AI on radiology+path appears to outperform unimodal in early lung cancer relapse prediction buff.ly/4hLk98U Found with researchbriefing.com
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