Quick Read:
- AI is revolutionizing personalized and effective care. From surgery and pathology support to extremely early detection, AI treatment options can do a world of good for breast cancer thrivers.
- The Monicor is the first to combine the wisdom of Eastern medicine with Western scientific rigor, ensuring that every treatment is targeted and tailored for each woman. It gives providers the capability to assess 2500 physiological and 70 emotional states to create a perfectly precise healing plan that puts a body back in balance.
- AI can be part of an integrative approach, but you must still balance it with healthy lifestyle changes, organic foods, stress management, toxin prevention, etc.
AI and Breast Cancer
Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s THE hot debate right now, and it’s not going away. For good or bad, privacy violations or time-saving support, it’s ingraining itself into every part of our lives. AI shows you how to get to a grocery store (Google Maps) and then checks out your groceries (self-checkout). It can also monitor your heart rate and sleep patterns, depict your credit score, decipher which social media posts and ads you will see…and oh-so-much more. It’s taking jobs and innovating new ones.
We all have opinions on our rapidly changing and often confusing world. However, in the world of breast cancer care, there’s no doubt that AI enhances breast cancer care by offering highly personalized support and real-time insights. From extremely early detection (starting at 1a!) to enhancing surgical precision, AI empowers medical providers to guide their patients to remarkably better outcomes.
Below, we will look at a few of the top AI tools for breast cancer healing available today, starting from the beginning of the journey. However, before going on, all of us at Breast Cancer Conqueror® want to be clear that AI can be used as a tool, but it should never solely replace a human brain and soul. Additionally, like everything else in your healing protocols, always back it up and balance it with other tests, second (or third) opinions, and your intuition. Nothing is ever perfect, even machines.
EMFs & Electro-sensitivity
Speaking of balance, be intentional about taking long breaks from your personal robots—smartphone, computer, TV, Apple Watch, iPad, and all devices. EMFs (learn all about them here) are known sources of oxidative stress—a root cause of premature aging, DNA damage, creating a favorable environment for tumor cell growth, and single pathways for cancer cell proliferation. Plus, fresh air and sunshine do wonders for our happiness and immune systems, so upon reading this blog post, go out and enjoy the great outdoors and real humans!
Early Detection and Diagnosis
Raman Spectroscopy (Coming Soon!)
Essential #7 is to Adopt Very Early Detection because the easiest way to heal is to catch the cancer at its beginning stages. Click here to learn about several safe and accurate alternatives to the invasive mammogram, many of them being powered by AI. However, Raman spectroscopy is one to keep an eye on. It’s the first technique to reveal changes in the blood that occur during the initial phase, stage 1a. When available, the Raman Spectroscopy will be the earliest detection test someone can take, with 98% accuracy! It will also be done through the combined powers of blood, lasers, and AI, making it virtually risk-free.
iCAD’s ProFound AI
ProFound AI is a cutting-edge technology used with 3D mammograms (digital breast tomosynthesis). It provides radiologists with lesion probability scores, helping to identify breast cancer in patients with dense breast tissue. ProFound AI has been shown to reduce radiologists’ reading time by over 50% and improve cancer detection rates by up to 8%.
One-third of all breast cancer cases are with breast density in over 50% of their breast tissue. While better screening will increase accuracy, the most surefire way to prevent cancer or heal it faster is by proactive prevention and reversal. Please read this blog post to learn how to decrease dense breasts.
Personalized Treatment Plans
Tempus
Tempus is an AI platform that integrates genomic and clinical data to help oncologists, patients, and medical providers develop personalized treatment plans. By analyzing tumor-specific mutations and patient health records, Tempus recommends targeted therapies and predicts their effectiveness. It can also help identify potentially life-saving clinical trials.
Note: Currently, Tempus does not provide information on natural therapies, lifestyle changes, and full-body wellness. Which, of course, are critical for vibrant health, healing, and prevention of recurrence and other dis-eases.
Oncora Medical
Oncora Medical addresses cancer with data by using AI to predict patient outcomes and optimize radiation therapy plans. The platform combines historical treatment data with AI algorithms to recommend the most effective dosage and delivery methods for radiation therapy, reducing side effects and improving outcomes. It also saves medical providers time by simplifying workflow and reducing documentation burdens so they can focus more on actual doctoring.
Monicor—a personal favorite of Breast Cancer Conqueror and The Karlfeldt Center!
Monicor is revolutionizing personalized healthcare by combining the wisdom of Eastern medicine with Western scientific rigor. It ensures that every treatment is targeted and tailored to the individual. Utilizing cutting-edge AI, it meticulously tunes organs and organ systems by analyzing 746 specific points along 14 main meridians.
This gives providers the capability to assess 2500 physiological and 70 emotional states, making the Monicor method the world’s premier AI-driven device dedicated to bringing your body into perfect balance.
Side note: To learn more about meridian lines, please read this blog post. For more info about energy systems visit Essential #3: Balance Your Energy.
Additionally, the Monicor leverages AI to provide personalized patient support throughout the healing journey. Its user-friendly dashboard enables real-time communication with care teams, as well as data collection on symptoms and recovery metrics so that patients receive timely interventions and guidance.
When Dr. V visited The Karlfeldt Center last fall, she was tested with Monicor. “I was very impressed with the accuracy and the amount of information it gave me about my body and my health.”
At-Home Health Apps
HeartMath—Another personal favorite!
When your heart is calm, your body’s systems are in sync. Calm, balance, and self-healing naturally take over your body. This is Heart Coherence, and The Inner Balance HeartMath app can help you get there. To learn more about the mind-body-healing connection and Heart Rate Variability (HRV), please review this blog post on HeartMath.
Drug Development
Atomwise
Atomwise employs AI to screen billions of molecular compounds, identifying those with the potential to target specific breast cancer pathways. Its algorithms predict which compounds are most likely to succeed in preclinical and clinical testing, accelerating the drug discovery process. This is done through its machine learning-based discovery engine, which combines convolutional neural networks with gigantic chemical libraries to discover new small-molecule medicines.
Surgery and Pathology
Project InnerEye by Microsoft
InnerEye is an AI platform that assists surgeons in identifying tumor margins during breast cancer surgery. By providing real-time 3D imaging of the tumor and surrounding tissues, InnerEye empowers surgeons to remove cancerous cells more precisely, minimizing the risk of recurrence and preserving healthy tissue. It’s an incredible example of humans and AI working together to make surgery more effective.
Please read this blog post to discover daily actions you can take to prevent recurrence and learn more about Dr. V’s story.
Paige AI
Paige AI is revolutionizing pathology with three different AI-based offerings:
- Diagnostic & Biomarker AI: Detection, subtyping, and molecular biomarker discovery are all powered by tissues and AI.
- AI Technology & Services: Accelerate research and development of novel computational pathology applications.
- Paige Alba™: Paige’s proprietary new multi-modal co-pilot designed to transform pathology workflows and unlock precision medicine.
Ethical Considerations and Challenges
“With great power comes great responsibility.” -Voltaire in the 18th century. It’s still completely true today. While AI offers transformative benefits for breast cancer outcomes, its adoption raises ethical and logistical concerns:
- Data Privacy – Everything based on AI relies on sensitive data, and the world of technology sometimes moves faster than the world of security and regulations.
- Algorithm Bias – AI naturally has a bias (same as humans) to whatever models they are trained on. Non-diverse datasets risk producing biased outcomes, so efforts must be made to ensure equitable care.
- Validation and Integration—Developers create AI tools that must be used by medical providers, who may not be used to using so much tech in their practice. Therefore, challenges may arise when asking them to seamlessly integrate AI tools into their daily routines.
AI & Integrative Care: A new era of precision, personalization, and powerful treatments
While there are real concerns around AI, it is here to stay and also doing a world of good. Dr. Restrepo of Mass General Brigham makes an excellent point:
“Our brains are constantly gathering data points, and we’re cross-examining that data with what we already know. But when it comes to finding a diagnosis — that needle in a haystack of information — we can’t revisit every case learned or reread every page of medical literature, especially if dozens of other patients need our attention.”
The human brain and time constraints can only do so much, but in this situation, advanced AI models can review billions of data points to find the very best path through the haystack, the most probable diagnosis.
Conquering Breast Cancer Together
AI is transforming breast cancer care
, and we must use it to our advantage. However, it’s not the end of all. We must still balance it with healthy lifestyle changes, organic foods, stress management, quality sleep, toxin prevention, etc. It can and should be part of your integrative approach to healing. We are all about this at Breast Cancer Conqueror—using the best options to make personalized healing plans that work.
Let’s Conquer Breast Cancer Together, starting with our online program in collaboration with Micheal Karlfeldt, ND, PhD, of The Karlfeldt Center—an integrative oncology healing center in Idaho.
Let the REAL healing begin!