How Artificial Intelligence Is Joining The Fight Against Cancer

Artificial intelligence is speeding up the search for a cancer cure. For the past few years, AI has already delivered advancements and breakthroughs in the healthcare industry with regard to diagnosis and treatments, yet even those who advocate for its full use believe a cure is still a decade away.

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The path toward a cancer-free world is built on small steps and will be iterative. Just as how previous innovations has led researchers to develop present cutting-edge technologies, AI-assisted cancer cure may take a little more time to materialize. While AI is currently fulfilling breakthroughs in cancer diagnosis, its technology will have to undergo manifold iterations to solve an overabundance of smaller problems before undertaking the final challenge.

AI possesses the huge potential of helping scientists manage the puzzling difficulties of research and other data to accelerate the discovery of a cancer drug and render scientific findings into real benefits for patients. With the ability to search through billions of experimental results, AI can identify patterns and make functional predictions regarding diagnoses, end results, and responses to treatments.

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Scientists are priming AI systems to determine early evidence of cancer in patients. This technology can be considered as seeds, but scientists, researchers, and physicians believe that it can go as far as assisting humans in finding a cure for the disease that kills millions every year. AI is a powerful weapon in mankind’s battle against cancer and other diseases, requiring the participation of providers and users in its iterative process.

Matias Campiani is the co-founder and CEO of Welwaze Medical, Inc., a health tech company that focuses on AI-based diagnostic and health monitoring solutions. Subscribe to this blog for similar updates.

Technology And Health Care: The Broad Strokes

When people are admitted into hospitals nowadays, they seldom notice the technology that surrounds them. Health care is one of the industries that has benefitted greatly from the endless technological breakthroughs the past decades have seen. From scanning to diagnosis, to data management to treatment design, technology has made health care much more efficient. 

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One of the perfect examples of technology’s impact on the healthcare industry can be seen in rural places where healthcare professionals have a difficult time reaching. Through the wonders of mobile technology, diagnosis and treatment are a possibility. Today, physicians can now see patients via cameras and scan the bodies of people who are ill to come up with their own diagnosis. 

Technology has also made it possible for physicians to access the medical records of their patients remotely. Through smartphones and laptops, whenever a physician comes across a patient in the field, they no longer need to call the hospital to ask for information. This makes medical missions all over the world very much possible. 

As for people who are always on the go, they no longer need to stand in line or even call a hospital to set up an appointment. Appointments can be set with only a few taps of the screen. 

Technology has also made it easier and less dangerous to train medical professionals via simulations and virtual reality. Who knows what else technology can bring into health care? What do you think?

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Matias Campiani is an alumnus of both Universidad Católica Argentina and Carnegie Mellon. He was a founding partner in many companies and presently heads Welwaze, which focuses the development of AI-based diagnostic and health monitoring solutions. Learn more about him and his work here.