Cancer therapies depend on dizzying amounts of data: Here's how it's getting sorted in the cloud

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Cancer patients and their doctors have more information about the disease and its treatment than ever before, and the information available continues to grow at a dizzying rate. All that information, however, isn't useful if people can't make sense of it all. 

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Think about a lung cancer patient, for instance, who might receive an early diagnosis through a screening program that produces a computed tomography (CT) image. As their diagnosis and treatment plan advances, their caretakers will bring in data sources like MR and molecular imaging, pathology data -- which is increasingly digitized -- and genomics information. 

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