Today is a short post because most of the info will come from the link at the bottom. Researchers at Harvard are working on ways to bring AI into the realm of detecting oral cancer.
Oral cancer is a horrible disease. It is often fatal, mainly because it isn't detected in the early stages. Cancers detected in Stage 1 or Stage 2 often have much better outcomes. However, oral cancer is often not detected until Stage 3 or Stage 4 which makes them much more difficult treat and extremely difficult to recover from. Globally it is responsible for around 325,000 deaths per year.
Dentistry has been trying for decades to create a way to make them easier to detect. That's why I was excited to read about a study from Harvard that deals with using the emerging tech of AI to make detection easier and faster.
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