GP's surgeries to get software that spots early cancer symptoms and calculates risk
January 2010
There are more than 200 forms of cancer, and many of their
symptoms are the same as for a range of other, often less serious,
conditions. Computers could help doctors get it right more often
when deciding whether to investigate a patient further, discharge
them or refer them to hospital.
"This is helping GPs because none of us can retain this sort of
information [about cancer symptoms] and having to retain it for
bowel cancer, lung cancer and ovarian cancer, as well as for heart
disease, it would take a remarkable human brain to be able to do
that, so why not get computers to support it?" said Professor Mike
Richards, the government's cancer tsar.
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