Meet 5 Indian startups you didn’t know were working on making cancer easier to diagnose
21 March 2019 2:30 AM IST
India is simply not equipped to deal with the number of cancer cases diagnosed each year. A handful of startups are trying to change that by using technology to improve screening and ensure early detection.
- a camera to detect oral cancer early on “Around 80,000 new cases of oral cancer are detected in the country each year.
- The processed images are analysed in real time to decide whether the tissue is abnormal or not,” explains Dr Narayanan.
- This minimises under-diagnosis and ensures the cancer is detected early on, thus improving the prognosis, says Dr Narayanan.
- diagnosing cancer using blood, urine, salivaOne of the biggest challenges in diagnosing cancer is that test results are not always conclusive.
- Dr Aman Sharma of ExocanAman set out to address this challenge by using exosomes, which can be used for molecular diagnosis of cancer without biopsy or scanning.
- So, CTCs are more important than DNA which are derived from dead cancer cells,” Dr Kannan explains.
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