{"id":881924,"date":"2026-09-06T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881924\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:18:20","slug":"the-researchers-trying-to-end-the-cancer-treatment-guessing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881924\/","title":{"rendered":"The researchers trying to end the cancer treatment guessing game"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a phrase that shapes cancer treatment more than most of us realise: \u201cthe average patient\u201d. It’s who a treatment plan is actually built for – not for the patient specifically, but a statistical composite drawn from clinical trials. And once a patient starts on the recommended drug, it is often eight to twelve weeks before a scan tells you whether it was ever going to work for your tumour, specifically. And the odds aren’t great to begin with – roughly 19 out of 20 cancer drugs that enter human trials never make it to approval. Today we’re talking to Dr Christoph Meinert, co-founder & CEO of Brisbane-based Gelomics, who\u2019s trying to close that gap. How? He\u2019s using AI to build a digital stand-in for an individual patient’s own tumour, so doctors can test treatments on it before they ever test them on the human.<\/p>\n

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Host: Sam KoslowskiGuest: Dr Christoph Meinert, Gelomics co-founder & CEOProducer: Orla Maher\u00a0<\/p>\n

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