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VA, IBM Enter Partnership to Use Watson Cognitive System For Cancer Treatment Identification
IBM‘s Watson Health business unit and the Department of Veteran Affairs have formed a public-private partnership to help VA doctors identify personalized cancer treatment options for veterans. The VA said Wednesday scientists and pathologists will use IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology to determine possible cancer-causing mutations from patients’ genetic alteration files and identify potential treatment options for those mutations. […] More