Dr. Shivan Sivakumar PhD FRCP, from the University of Birmingham, says that artificial intelligence is battling cancer but not how you think. He explains how AI is delivering on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan’s survivorship pledge, and urges the oncology community to rethink where we invest our resources and focus.
I've spent much of my career in oncology wrestling with a frustrating reality that while we've made remarkable strides in diagnosing cancer, our ability to treat it - especially in the survivorship phase - hasn't kept pace.
We've become very good at finding the specific genetic cancer variations through advanced diagnostics, yet cancer treatment can only target 46 of the 750 known mutations which impact the disease's progression and recurrence.
This gap directly echoes the newly published NHS 10 Year Health Plan, which calls for earlier diagnosis and a pipeline of affordable personalised interventions to keep patients cancer-free.
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