Math: The Next Cancer Finder?

Joachim Spatz is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and a Professor at the University of Heidelberg, and he and his team may have just revolutionized cancer identification. 

 

In modern methods of identifying cancerous cells, doctors need to take a biopsy of tissue, stain it using certain antibodies and markers, and then use their doctor magic to tell what's cancerous and what's not. This has a sensitivity (or rate of positive identification) of 85%. Spatz's method looks at the details of the cell for certain mathematical properties, and boasts a 97% successful positive identification of cancerous cells.

Perhaps a world free of disease will be within our reach soon.

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