A Data Mining Approach to Diagnose Cancer for Therapeutic Decision Making.
Journal:
Alternative therapies in health and medicine
Published Date:
Jan 9, 2019
Abstract
BACKGROUND: With the increase in population, there is a rise in number of cancer cases starting from young children to old people. The uncommon cancers are generally sporadic and there are no pre-defined techniques/tools for the diagnosis. Identifying the diseases at an early stage can avoid the cancerous cells from metastasis to different body parts through tissue, lymph system and blood. It is very difficult for the parents to know that the child is suffering from cancer until the cancer has reached to Stage 4. The duration it takes the cancer to reach Stage 4 can depend on many factors but the fact about childhood cancer is that it is curable to some extent. Diagnoses of the cancer at an early stage, i.e. at Stage 1, from childhood to old age can increase the survival rate of the patients by 85% and also helps to come up with certain therapy.