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Fourteen U.S. and Canadian cancer institutes will use International Business Machines Corp's Watson computer system to choose therapies based on a tumor's genetic fingerprints. 
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A 37-year-old Indian software engineer was recently diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer which was spreading fast in both her breasts. This increased the risk of both her breasts getting surgically removed. She went to a hospital in Bengaluru where Dr. Somashekhar S. P., a top oncologist, fed her medical records and genomics data into IBM's Watson Supercomputer. In just sixty seconds Watson threw up several treatment options and gathered evidence specific to her health needs.