The article I chose from Biology News Net is called Artificial Intelligence Expedites Breast Cancer Risk Prediction. This article is about researchers at Houston Methodist who have developed an artificial intelligence software that reliably interprets mammograms, which assists doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk. The software reviews millions of records in a short amount of time, allowing doctors to determine the risk of breast cancer more efficiently using breast cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12.1 million mammograms are performed in the United States annually. The American Cancer Society claims fifty percent yield false positive results, resulting in one in every two healthy women who are told they have cancer. When mammograms fall into the suspicious category, a range of 3 to 95 percent cancer risk, are recommended biopsies. Over 1.6 million biopsies are performed annually nationwide. About 20 percent of those mammograms are unnecessarily performed due to false positive results of cancer free patients. The researchers on the Houston Methodist team hope that the new artificial intelligence software will better help physicians define the percent risk requiring a biopsy, giving doctors a tool to decrease unnecessary breast biopsies.
This article initially caught my eye because I am very interested in oncology and cancer research. Cancer is a disease that runs in my family. Many of my aunts have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Some have even passed away from the disease.
Breast Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer women are diagnosed with in the United States. However, many women are diagnosed with false positives, which cause them to undergo many unnecessary and expensive medical procedures. The new Artificial Intelligence Software, will reduce the number of false positives and save both physicians and women time and money. This new advanced technology will be very beneficial to women everywhere. It can review hundreds of charts in a fraction of the time. This may help us locate the cancer before it has a chance to spread.
I was very impressed with this article. It gave the reader a lot of insight on how the software will work. It also gave us statistics about breast cancer that supported the use of the software. There isn't anything I would change about this article. It was easy to read and understand what the writer was trying to say. It was so interesting to read about this new advancement in cancer research.
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/29/artificial_intelligence_expedites_breast_cancer_risk_prediction.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+biologynews%2Fheadlines+%28Biology+News+Net%29
This article initially caught my eye because I am very interested in oncology and cancer research. Cancer is a disease that runs in my family. Many of my aunts have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Some have even passed away from the disease.
Breast Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer women are diagnosed with in the United States. However, many women are diagnosed with false positives, which cause them to undergo many unnecessary and expensive medical procedures. The new Artificial Intelligence Software, will reduce the number of false positives and save both physicians and women time and money. This new advanced technology will be very beneficial to women everywhere. It can review hundreds of charts in a fraction of the time. This may help us locate the cancer before it has a chance to spread.
I was very impressed with this article. It gave the reader a lot of insight on how the software will work. It also gave us statistics about breast cancer that supported the use of the software. There isn't anything I would change about this article. It was easy to read and understand what the writer was trying to say. It was so interesting to read about this new advancement in cancer research.
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2016/08/29/artificial_intelligence_expedites_breast_cancer_risk_prediction.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+biologynews%2Fheadlines+%28Biology+News+Net%29
I think it is pretty awesome that software technology for diagnosing cancer is already coming out. I have had a family member diagnosed with cancer too, but luckily it was caught early enough that everything went OK. Reducing the number of false positives could reduce a lot of potential anxiety, and I don't know anyone that would want to put themselves through cancer treatment when they don't have to. Not only do the patients have to unnecessarily go through the treatments, but they probably have to take a big hit financially too, especially if they don't have good insurance. Overall this technology seems to be a positive improvement in healthcare.
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Probably the most important thing that doctors do is diagnose diseases, and most of them spend around a decade attending school, and participating in internships to be able to do so. As these diagnostic computer technologies advance, and become better than humans, a medical doctor's job seems like it can be replaced by an IT professional that knows a little bit about healthcare. What kinds of things can doctors do once technology has dominated the realm of medical diagnosis?
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