🏥 Axios PM: AI's cancer breakthroughs

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AI and other new technologies are ushering in a revolution in cancer care, Axios Future of Health Care author Caitlin Owens reports.

• AI tools are going to "start generating much more patient-specific insights," former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said. "And that's really the future."

The big picture: The holy grail of cancer treatment is precision medicine — care tailored to a patient's unique manifestation of the disease.

• Getting there requires better insight into each patient's cancer, more sophisticated tools to help match it to the right treatment, and the ability to do that work at scale — and at a price patients and insurance companies can handle.
• All that is happening, or at least getting closer.

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Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former President Trump, Axios' Stef W. Kight reports.

• Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) both released ads today that include images of Trump — and not to bash him.
• Casey's ad brags that he "sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating."
• Baldwin's says she "got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill."

In Michigan, the Senate campaign of a third Democrat, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, spent more than $1 million on an ad saying she "wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices."

• Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) have taken a similar tack.

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Instagram Teen Accounts help parents support teens as they grow. Teen Accounts include automatic protections limiting who can contact teens and what content they see.

The impact: More protections for teens, and peace of mind for parents.

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1. 🇺🇦 President Biden met with European leaders today in Germany, urging them to keep supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia. Go deeper.
2. 💻 The Justice Department charged two Sudanese brothers with operating a hacking group that launched more than 35,000 attacks in the last year against hospitals, government offices and other major organizations. Go deeper.
3. 💼 CVS Health today announced the sudden ouster of CEO Karen Lynch. CVS is reportedly weighing a breakup plan that could separate the company's Aetna insurance business and its retail pharmacy division. Go deeper.

An aerial view shows people on a bridge as they navigate one of the world's largest corn mazes, at Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, Calif.

• The giant maze takes about two hours to complete, and has twice earned a Guinness World Record as the world's largest corn maze.

Instagram is launching Teen Accounts, with built-in protections limiting who can contact teens and the content they can see. Plus, only parents can approve safety setting changes for teens under 16.

The impact: More protections for teens, and peace of mind for parents.

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