Importance of Information Working With Colon Cancer Research

Importance of Information Working With Colon Cancer Research

DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3026-5.ch041
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Abstract

Modern science helps us to understand the changing world around us, across fields such as biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics, chemistry, computational biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, and many others. An important branch of science that has had a large impact on the medical field is bioinformatics. This chapter introduces the importance of information science into colon cancer research. According to the American Cancer Association, in the United States in 2018, 97,220 new cases of colon cancer (CC) were identified. The research into this topic area is an immediate need to save many lives and improve people's living standards.
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2. Significance Of The Research

Colon cancer is the most common tumour-producing disease in the world. It is unfortunately well known that many hospitals and treatment centres lack the facilities and equipment to predict the disease. Additionally, the larger the queue of people waiting to be treated in a given region lacking requisite facilities, the larger the probability of missed diagnoses. For this reason, there is a great need for new methods and technologies to enhance cancer detection and tumour classification.

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