Cancer is one of the biggest problems worldwide, and Microsoft, whose founder is one of the world's leading philanthropists, is one of those trying not necessarily to find a cure, but at least to contribute to the work being done in this direction.
And now a Microsoft researcher says there are indications that, 10 years from now, technology will have evolved so much that it will finally be able to solve this huge problem.
Jasmin Fisher, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, and leader of the research team in the university's biochemistry department, has not offered too many details about how the disease will be treated, but she explained that cloud computing will be the core technology that will allow more datain order to find a cure for cancer.
“Ten years from now, cancer will be a solvable problem thanks to interdisciplinary, breakthrough approaches that will allow researchers and clinicians to quantify the mechanisms that lead to cancer, as well as understand, diagnose and treat patients on an individual level. I believe that executional biology will play a key role in addressing this enormous challenge,” he says.
More diseases will also be “solved”
And the technological advancement won't just address cancer. Fisher explains that the same cloud computing-based technology can be used for other diseases as well.
“One of the major developments we will see in health and well-being in 2016 will be the use of innovative interdisciplinary technologies designed to extend and improve the lives of patients with complex diseases,” he argues.
While this is an optimistic prediction, it is certainly good news to see tech giants like Microsoft getting involved in medical research, especially since cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In the UK alone, 161,823 people died from various types of cancer in 2012, with a mortality rate of 168.6 per 100,000 of the population.
