At least once in a year or two years every woman is recommended to go through mammography test. Such testings are important to spot the cancer on early stages. However, outside of being crucial, it is also expensive. This problem is faced by low-/middle-income countries, while the amount of woman that have or, as a result, die from cancer is gradually increasing over last years.
In India, where half of the woman with this disease die, new way of spotting breast cancer was found. A small and portable camera which works basing on AI and consisting thermal in it.
The test is taking around 10 minutes and the only thing woman should do is to remove the top. One of the main advantages of this test is that no one is touching you, especially considering that this fact was stopping some people from the mammography test.
The test works in the way of producing detailed heatmap of the breasts, and if it spots patterns typical for cancer, the woman is required to undertake further tests
There is the hope that this invention will make tests more accessible in the place where mammography is considered intrusive or is less accessible.
60,000 women were already tested using this technology, the inventor of the ‘machine’ claims that the camera is 90% accurate in detecting abnormalities.
However, what is the Western countries’ opinion on this Indian invention?
Doctors from US and Europe still doubt this invention and think that thermal tests are not reliable, so you cannot use this, when it comes to the point that the result can threaten patient’s life.
What is more, the US Food and Drug Administration stated that mammography is and will be the best screening method. On controversy to this, the other statement of US FDA is that they hope, these specific tests will reach people, that cannot afford or avoid undertaking regular ones.
However, that is a great start for such an important development of 21st century. Breast cancer is one of the biggest problems when it comes to causes of womens’ death.
Here you can read more about AI related test that help doctors to fight with breasts cancer by detecting it on early stages: https://www.cureus.com/articles/106594-artificial-intelligence-in-breast-cancer-screening-and-diagnosis
