AI IN CANCER TREATMENT

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Over the years, Cancer has risen to be one of the world’s leading causes of death. Many steps have been taken in trying to end the deadly killer disease AI being one of them. AI is becoming more common in cancer treatment and has the potential to change how we diagnose and treat cancer. It is being utilized in a few ways, including image analysis, personalized treatment, drug development, and clinical decision support. This can assist doctors in detecting cancer sooner and more accurately, leading to more effective treatment.

The application of AI in cancer practice includes providing clinical decision support for cancer diagnosis and screening, processing medical data for cancer detection or characterization of patient prognosis, and optimizing care delivery and clinical operations by increasing system capacity and allocating resources.

One area where AI is having a significant impact is in the diagnosis of cancer. This involves the ability of its algorithms to analyze medical images, such as CT scans or MRIs, and detect signs of cancer that may be overlooked by human radiologists, potentially leading to earlier detection of cancer. This  can help doctors to make more accurate diagnoses and prognoses, choose the most appropriate treatment plan, and monitor the effectiveness of treatment over time. This can lead to more personalized and effective treatment for individual patients and may help to detect cancer at an earlier stage, when it is most treatable.

Another application of AI in cancer treatment is optimizing chemotherapy and radiotherapy by analyzing patient data to determine the most effective dosage and schedule, reducing side effects and increasing effectiveness. Additionally, AI is being explored for identifying new targeted therapies, analyzing genomics data for personalized treatment options, and developing new drugs. While still in the early stages, the incorporation of AI in cancer treatment has the potential to significantly improve the way cancer is diagnosed, treated, and managed, with the possibility for even more innovative uses in the future as AI technology continues to advance.

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In my view, AI has revolutionized the healthcare industry especially in oncology in ways we could not have thought of say 50 years ago. Many people’s lives have been saved, and many continue to survive as a result f this. I believe if we continue to invest in artificial intelligence to help us change our health industry, we might be able to find a way to curb all killer diseases. Those are my thoughts though , feel free to comment on yours.

SOURCES:

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/artificial-intelligence-cancer-imaging

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8965797/

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332220304479

9 thoughts on “AI IN CANCER TREATMENT

  1. 48745 says:

    Using AI in medicine is a great and revolutionazing idea. It’s amazing how AI is helping in other fields, albeit medical one is the most important of them and I am sincerely happy that now it can help us with saving our and our loved ones lives. We should hone this technology and make it perfect.

  2. Mariia Golovchenko says:

    It’s amazing how much artificial intelligence has advanced over the past few years. I fully agree that the use of such technologies in medicine not only gives hope, but also saves an incredibly large number of lives. Of course, there is still a lot of work ahead, but we are definitely on the right track. If we continue to invest in and improve artificial intelligence, this will lead to an incredible breakthrough in the industry of medicine.

  3. Spasibukhov Artem says:

    Nowadays, there are endless opportunities for AI implementation in every sphere of our life and it is incredible. I truly believe that its development in medicine will prevent many deaths and ruined lifes. As for now, medicine is the field where human factor plays enormously huge role and AI with its recognition of patterns and many other things will definitely help to reduce amount of doctors’ fatal mistakes.

  4. Małgorzata Łątka says:

    It’s amazing how artificial intelligence is helpful in so many fields. I am really hopeful that artificial intelligence will someday even detect which of us is more likely to develop cancer and will prevent our generation from becoming ill. However, things that you are writing about are already so impressing.

  5. 47483 says:

    Wow this is really impressive that it can already be so useful in the healthcare sector and I think it’s great news for people I think it will increase the efficiency of treating patients which of course cannot but rejoice. I hope in the future thanks to us we can speed up the treatment process and we will less susceptible to such diseases

  6. Thananon Chounudom says:

    AI is being used in cancer diagnosis and treatment, such as analyzing medical images for early detection, optimizing chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and identifying new targeted therapies. Additionally, this blog post suggests that as AI technology continues to advance, there may be even more innovative uses for AI in cancer treatment in the future.

  7. 47613 says:

    I am becoming more and more convinced that AI is the future and not some kind of surge of discussion around a new technology, such as it was with the blockchain. AI really helps humanity, unlike cryptocurrencies. It’s cool that computer vision can help doctors, I think this technology in medicine can be applied not only in the detection of cancer.

  8. 47608 says:

    In my opinion, this is the best possible use of AI. The way it helps with diagnosis and thus saves lives is really beautiful. I hope this will develop further, helping even more people.

  9. 47593 says:

    It’s impressive how AI can be useful in such a hard case of treating cancer. Many people will definitely benefit from this and I’m sure that in the future, we will be able to prevent cancer even before it appears.

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