Life Sciences and Medicine: Advances in cancer cure & aid via big data

The increasing rate of Cancer patients and death troll due to the deadly disease is heart breaking. Cancer treatment has been around since i1500 BC when humans began distinguishing between malignant and benign tumors by learning how to surgically remove them. It is intriguing and scientifically helpful to take a look at how far the world’s knowledge of cancer has progressed since that time and what kind of role big data and its management and analysis plays in the search for a cure.

Professionals and researchers in the field of oncology have to assert the fact that each patient requires personalized treatment and medication in order to manage the specific type of cancer that they have. Three billion base pairs make up the DNA present in humans. It’s probably safe to say that such a massive amount of data should be organized in a useful way, especially if it presents the possibility of eliminating cancer.  Thus by using gene editing, gene sequencing and 3D printing the doctors might find a more effective way to cure cancer.

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