Meet 5 Indian startups you didn’t know were working on making cancer easier to diagnose

Meet 5 Indian startups you didn’t know were working on making cancer easier to diagnose
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  • 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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