“Dying to Survive” is a 2018 Chinese comedy-drama film based on a real-life story of Yong Lu, a Leukemia patient who imported generic cancer drugs from India to China to supply fellow patients suffering from Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) who could not afford the cost of the domestically available medication. When Yong was arrested in 2013, the charge against Yong was eventually dropped following a public outcry by over 1,000 patients whose lives had been extended by his efforts.
I just returned from PSI conference 2018. I got a chance to give an oral present at session “Step into the Real World”. I shared my experience from taking part in Roche Advanced Analytics Data (RAAD) Challenge. The take-home message is “with available wealthy real-world data and the power of machine learning for such data, statisticians would be benefit to know machine learning methods”. You can read my slides “Predict survival for cancer patients using real world data: simple model or advanced machine learning?