Cancer is one of the most complex diseases that affects humankind, making it an incredibly difficult condition to study and even more difficult to treat. In fact, cancer is so complicated that the world’s foremost experts of the early 20th century knowingly simplified cancer research — it was the only way they could develop any usable body of scientific knowledge, full well knowing they were unable to possibly understand every single factor that influenced cancer.
Today, though, humanity has a powerful new ally in the fight to eliminate cancer: artificial intelligence. AI and machine learning algorithms gather the data needed to understand cancer holistically and support cancer researchers by providing them with a deeper level of insight than ever available before.