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Deep dive on the pros & cons of using IBM's to help treat cancer, and the huge challenges involved: statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson

tl;dr: it's still in its infancy, basically Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in a box (with docs from there feeding it all it knows sort of like Mechanical Turk workers), with all the problems and biases that implies, but it's got a lot of promise treating people in areas with no oncology experts

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