Big data as a weapon against cancer?

Diagnosis: cancer. About 500.000 people receive this diagnose every year in Germany, and the disease often ends deadly. Now big data solutions are about to enable an effective treatment.

Because each cancer disease is individual, the therapy represents a major challenge for the medical profession. In addition, genetic preconditions have an influence on the success of a therapy. This means that an individual treatment has to be developed for each patient.