Community health workers with smartphone AI screen for mouth cancer in South Asia
Mouth cancer is common where tobacco is chewed and is visible to the naked eye. Health workers with a phone camera and AI could find it early in villages.
The Kerala cluster RCT showed visual oral screening reduces oral cancer mortality in tobacco and alcohol users; smartphone photo triage with AI has shown promising accuracy in India. Propose scaling community-worker screening with an AI second read and tele-referral in high-incidence districts.
- Most lethal cancers are found late · Screening exists for only a few cancers. Pancreatic, ovarian, liver, oesophageal and most lung cancers are found when cure is unlikely.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
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