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While recent advancements have yielded integrative prediction solutions for multi-omics data, these methods lack a comprehensive and cohesive understanding of the rationale behind their specific predictions. To shed light on personalized medicine and unravel previously unknown characteristics within integrative analysis of multi-omics data, we introduce a novel integrative neural network approach for cancer molecular subtype and biomedical classification applications, named Integrative Graph Convolutional Networks (IGCN).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To demonstrate the superiority of IGCN, we compare its performance with other state-of-the-art approaches across different cancer subtype and biomedical classification tasks. Our experimental results show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art and baseline methods. 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