“The guidelines represent hundreds of thousands of hours of expert oncologists’ time. But the end result is a dense and hard to navigate PDF.”
The NCCN is an alliance of 32 cancer centers whose panels turn the evidence into decision trees every year. Those trees ship as hyperlinked PDFs that a busy oncologist walks by hand. Geiger pulled the breast cancer guidelines into 271 graph nodes with an LLM in a few hours, at 70 to 80% accuracy. The people writing the guidelines should have shipped the data in the first place.