Digital Health Today

Turning autoantibodies into an early-warning system to beat cancer In episode 74, we spoke about early detection of skin cancer with Erik de Heus, the CEO of SkinVision. In that episode we talked about a smartphone app that uses AI to determine the likelihood that a mole or mark on your skin could be malignant. That technology has reviewed millions of images and has helped detect cancer in tens of thousands of people around the world. It’s a great solution and it’s making a huge impact and it will continue to hold a vital place in our fight against skin cancer. But what about cancers below our skin’s surface? What tools do we have to detect and fight those cancers that we can’t see and that may be developing inside us? Is there a way to detect those cancers even before they form a cluster of cells large enough to be detected through a biopsy or scan? What if we could enlist the power of our own immune system to create a sort of early warning system that could alert us when cancerous cells are present. Well, t