Would AI (artificial intelligence) change the treatment of cancer patients?

Artificial intelligence is the current fashionable technology for investors.

Artificial intelligence is getting incorporated in our daily life.

AI is hyped everywhere .

Would AI make a difference in diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients?

Yes, it will play an important role in choosing the right treatments for individual cancer patient.

At present, a blanket treatment approach is used where subgroups of patients are treated in the same way. Not everyone responds to a particular cancer treatment and some people would develop resistance after an initial response to a particular treatment.

AI can help to move from this blanket treatment approach for whole group of patients

AI can help us move towards a personalised approach; it can help us to predict resistance and response to a particular treatment

AI can help in new drug development.

AI seems to the future

A word of caution. AI is not ready for routine clinical use yet. AI Algorithms need to be validated before day to day clinical use.