IBM Watson enlists in the war on cancer

In the U.S., 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 in women will develop cancer over the course of their lifetimes.

That sobering statistic comes direct from the American Cancer Society, a non-profit organization with roughly a century-worth of data on the disease. Now it’s finally taking that data, some 14,000 pages on 70 different cancer topics, as well as risks, treatments and prevention and pouring it into one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence engines: IBM Watson.

Cancer care and research is changing on almost a daily basis. “It’s humanly impossible for any doctor to know all this information,” said IBM’s Chief Health Officer Dr. Kyu Rhee told Mashable. Read more...