Monday, March 6 – Tuesday, March 7 | Washington, DC & Virtual

Innovations in the diagnostic specialties have the potential to dramatically reshape cancer diagnosis and enable precision therapy. Spurred by advances in informatics, there are opportunities to combine and collate information from imaging, pathology, and molecular testing. Multidisciplinary collaboration among pathologists, radiologists, and oncologists—supplemented by machine-learning based tools—could facilitate a more precise understanding of a patient’s diagnosis and what treatment strategies may be most effective for improved patient outcomes. Integrated diagnostics also have the potential to improve patient access to subspecialty expertise, particularly in community-based settings of cancer care.

This National Academies workshop, convened by the National Cancer Policy Forum, in collaboration with the Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and the Board on Human-Systems Integration, is an opportunity for the cancer community to better define the purpose, goals, and components of integrated diagnostics. Workshop presentations and discussions will examine the current state of integrated diagnostics in facilitating precision cancer care and highlight speaker perspectives on the vision for the future.

Visit the event page on the National Academies website for more details and to register.