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Robust AI tools to predict future cancer
To catch cancer earlier, we need to predict who is going to get it in the future. The complex nature of forecasting risk has been bolstered by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, but the adoption of AI in medicine has been limited by poor performance on new patient populations and neglect to racial minorities .
Two years ago, a team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Jameel Clinic demonstrated a deep learning system to predict cancer risk using just a patient’s mammogram . The model showed significant promise and even improved inclusivity: it was equally…
Can AI Tools Segment A Cancer Tumor As Well As An Oncologist?
Radiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used to deliver an oncologist's skills for radiation therapy? Karim R. Lakhani discusses a unique open innovation experiment.
We All Have A Reason To Stand Up To Cancer. What's Yours?
For me, cancer is personal; given the statistics, it’s likely to be personal for all of us.
Internet of Things data will help us predict the future
Until recently data was largely retrospective, telling a story of the past. Real-time feeds are revolutionary.
How to Help a Friend With Breast Cancer
How to give people with breast cancer the support they really need.
What to Do When Your Dog Has Cancer
There are a multitude of cancers that affect the bodies, organs, and systems of our dogs. Included in this are tumors, bone and blood cancers, and cancers of the skin, stomach, lungs, liver, intestines, brain, and other organs. What is the next step when your dog has been diagnosed with cancer? Read more.
5 little-known breast cancer facts
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. But there are still some things you may not know about it.
The 8 Most Preventable Cancers—And How To Slash Your Risk
Cancer often hits like a bolt of lightning—totally unforeseen, seemingly random, chalked up to a bad genetic hand or other forces outside of our control.
How Cancer Survivorship Care is Changing
Cancer survivorship programs and services used to be something that patients would think about as they neared the end of active treatment, but that’s changing. “More Americans are surviving cancer than ever before, and partly as a result of that, the model for survivorship care is changing,” says Ann Partridge, …
What Is HER2-Positive Breast Cancer?
HER2-positive breast cancer is a subtype of breast cancer that affects about 20 percent of breast cancer patients. Around fifty percent of HER2-positive cancers also have hormone receptors for estrogen and/or progresterone. HER2, which stands for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, is a gene in the cancer cell that …
5 Common Cancer Myths You Shouldn't Believe Anymore
They say what you don't know can't hurt you. But when it comes to cancer, it's what you think you know that could actually kill you. It's time to correct 5 commonly held, but false beliefs about the big C.
Does Vitamin D Help Protect Against Cancer?
Vitamin D deficiency may cause disorders associated with weak bones. However, some evidence has emerged suggesting that vitamin D may be associated with other diseases, including bowel and lung cancers.
How Walking May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Physical activity, even including walking, can substantially reduce a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, encouraging new science shows, in part, it seems, by changing how her body deals with estrogen.
How garlic can contribute to colon cancer prevention
Learn how to reduce your risk of colorectal cancer, which has the second highest mortality rate of cancers affecting both men and women in the U.S.
New cervical cancer screening guidelines released: What you need to know
The new guidance aims to simplify cervical cancer screenings.
Why Some Cancer Patients Are Losing Their Fingerprints
A strange and rare side effect of some cancer drugs
What Doctors Want You to Know About Breast Cancer
These surprising facts can help you lower your risk and stay healthy for good.
How Some Leukemia Patients May Soon Skip Chemo
More cancers are being treated with new anti-cancer drugs that allow patients to do without chemo
Radiation exposure: What to know
Do cancer patients need to worry about the ionizing radiation emitted from diagnostic scans, such as MRIs, CT scans and PET scans? Our experts weigh in to dispel some myths.
The Link Between Red Meat and Cancer: What You Need to Know
Scientific evidence has been accumulating for decades that colon cancer is more common among people who eat the most red meat and processed meat.
Why Doctors Are Rethinking Breast-Cancer Treatment
Too much chemo. Too much radiation. And way too many mastectomies
