Doctors Could Soon Predict Your Cancer Before It Even Starts—Thanks to AI
Is it even possible? Can doctors really predict cancer with the help of AI before it even starts? These questions may sound too futuristic, maybe in 2060 or so.
But really, imagine if your doctor could tell you way before, in advance, that you are at risk of cancer, even before your symptoms show up. Thanks to advances in AI, once an impossible idea, today is becoming a medical reality. Starting from early detection and diagnosis to planning your treatment along with discovering drugs, AI is quite busy transforming cancer care. But, most importantly, with AI one can analyse genetic data, medical history and even imaging scans to predict cancer risk long before it develops.
How Does it Work?
Predicting cancer with AI is not easy. To do that, AI algorithms are trained on crores of patient records, including, pathology reports,imaging scans, genetic markers etc. Once this is done, the algorithm uses these data inputs to identify subtle patterns and risk indicators, that the human eye generally misses, to predict cancer risk, especially:
- Who might be at risk?
- Type of Cancer
- When it is most likely to occur.
Why Does This Matter?
This personalised and proactive approach can help save millions globally, leading to reduced treatment cost, and take pressure off healthcare systems.
What’s The Catch?
Though the technology is an eye opener, however, it’s still in development phase and thus leads to concerns like:
- Data Privacy
- Bias in AI algorithms
- Accessibility in lower income regions
- Need for regulatory approval and clinical validation.
Still, looking at the positive side of tech, the potential is too big to ignore. With time, AI will continue to learn, adapt and improve and ultimately help your doctor in creating miracles. Remember, the future of cancer is not just about cure, it’s about prediction & prevention and AI, might be the key to all this.