TAS is a dashboard platform which leverages machine learning to bring key information forward during prostate cancer consultations, enabling optimal first line therapy decision making.
What's the current status of the prostate cancer treatment process? Here's a description from Justin via
Prostate Cancer UK:
"My doctor only talked me through two options, surgery or radiotherapy. They didn’t mention active surveillance. Looking back, I think I was trying to get him to tell me what he would do in my situation. But that’s not what they do. They just give you the options. And I realised quite quickly that there wasn’t one answer that would fit everybody. I told the surgeon that I couldn’t decide what treatment to have yet. It just felt like too much information and I needed more time."
We place the most important decision of a prostate cancer patient's life in their hands, with minimal information, and step back from it, despite holding clinical knowledge to inform and direct that choice to give them the best chance of success. What we don't share: How are other patients with my profile doing on these treatments? In my trust? In real time? Is there a clinical trial that would benefit me? How do I connect to it?
TAS uses smart algorithms to match patients to similar peers. It puts that information in front of clinicians immediately during the first consultation and beyond, so they can share it confidently and patients have what they need. Until the system improves, we support a better way.