Alas, Breast Cancer Screening Using AI?

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October, also breast cancer awareness month, is two months away. Not only does breast cancer affect women, it also affects men. However, a measurable amount of men go for screening if any is offered. Apart from the radiologists screening, there is also self-test cancer screening.

How does breast cancer develop?

Breast cancer develops as a result of genetic mutations or damage to DNA. These can be linked  with exposure to estrogen, inherited genetic defects, or inherited genes that can cause cancer, such as the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Your immune system attacks all abnormal DNA and growth when you’re healthy.

Recently, researchers led by a team at Lund University found computer-aided detection could spot cancer at a “similar rate” to two radiologists. However, more research is required to determine whether AI can be used in screening programmes. There is also a high promise by experts from the UK. This is definitely not the first study done for AI diagnoses. 

The screening trial, published in Lancet Oncology, had more than 80,000 women from Sweden with an average age of 54 years old. 

According to BBC News, “half of the scans were assessed by two radiologists, known as standard care, while the other half were assessed by the AI-supported screening tool followed by interpretation by one or two radiologists.”

We hope that the same research can be done by the cancer centers in Kenya. If you want to know more about cancer read National Screening Guideline 

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