What exactly will "Big Data" really do for this situation?
Big Data for this seems like not quite the right tact, unless you are shooting to categorize people and hope for the right drug for the many possible mutations for the cancer. I don't think we'd get very far as the samples would still be too small, and there would be too many possible mutations.
The only thing that will help, IMO, that is a future cure is cancer immunotherapy that is specific to just that one person.
It has worked in many cases, but it's very expensive. One of these days, that price could plummet, and even stage 4 could theoretically be kicked to the side, with no need for chemo.
Big Data for this seems like not quite the right tact, unless you are shooting to categorize people and hope for the right drug for the many possible mutations for the cancer. I don't think we'd get very far as the samples would still be too small, and there would be too many possible mutations.
The only thing that will help, IMO, that is a future cure is cancer immunotherapy that is specific to just that one person.
It has worked in many cases, but it's very expensive. One of these days, that price could plummet, and even stage 4 could theoretically be kicked to the side, with no need for chemo.