So many of you already know this, but I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page. Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death for women in rural areas around the world.It's a cause of death that is, in many ways, the most tragic because it's the most preventable.
Institute and the National Library of Medicine have done extraordinary work to prove that our partners at Global Good have been able to identify cervical cancer with an accuracy pretty high, a little over 90%, just on a single image alone.And that is extraordinary.
I'll talk a little bit about our cervical cancer work, which I think is a good indication of that. Cervical cancer is still a killer for women in Latin America and the Caribbean and across the globe.And it's caused by a virus called the HPV virus.
line that were used as a tremendous tool for studying cancer. Cervical cancer in particular but used in general just as perpetual cancer cells.And this book is about the fact that those cells actually ended up getting very widely distributed.
The hips, knees, ankles, and toes are free of movement. Cervical , thoracic, lumbar, sacral, about all of the 33 of the spinal vertebrae are filled with nourishing cerebral spinal fluid thattravels from the cranium to the tail bone and back to the cranium.
But what I want you to notice is that, from around the year 2000 until today, despite the fact that we've introduced tremendous technological leaps in cervical cancer screening-- liquid-based cytology, HPV testing, and most importantly, the vaccine-- the number of deaths and the number of new cases have basically flatlined, right?
Because you want to have information about how disease spreads within a population. Remember cervical cancer is a communicable disease. It comes from the human papillomavirus.
A familiar name, she's now featured in a new HBO story. Her cervical cancer cells were isolated and cultured at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 and they became the first human cell line that were used as a tremendous tool for studying cancer.
in mobile phones, and we had a need out there. We had identified that cervical cancer, which we'll speak about in a bit, is the leading cause of death for women in rural areas around the world. And it was so easily treatable.
And what the competition requested was for data science teams to look at this large public dataset and identify, based on this large public dataset, which women are at risk for cervical cancer. And they found an accuracy of-- I think it's over 90% in identifying high-risk women just from public datasets.
They are illuminated by the spotlights. But for cervical cancer, specifically, are you taking images from the pap smear swab?
They are illuminated by the spotlights. And the first cervical cancer screening program in Afghanistan was started because EVA systems out in Afghanistan were being used by midwives.
And for me, health is truly my passion. I've suffered with cervical spondylosis. I've seen people who are near and dear to me suffer with cancer.
The second one is applying the appropriate treatment. This is the basic workflow for how cervical cancer screening works in the United States today. And it's the same thing with the pap smear as well as the HPV test.
And at markets like Asian markets, you'll see that they're running them through the saws like this. But this is like an entire cervical spine of the cow. And so you can blend bones-- marrow bones, knuckle bones, neck bones.
It's a cause of death that is, in many ways, the most tragic because it's the most preventable. I'll show you in a little bit how cervical cancer develops. But just on one foot, cervical cancer can take up to 20 years to kill a patient.
They are illuminated by the spotlights. So they will know a woman who has died of cervical cancer.
Yes. Well, we last year alone served about six million women in Latin America and the Caribbean and provided roughly 30 million services from pap screening, cervical cancer screening, sex education, gender-based violence services, access to contraception, and safe and legal abortion when that is allowed by the local laws.
Yes. And we work to help them overcome them. I'll talk a little bit about our cervical cancer work, which I think is a good indication of that. Cervical cancer is still a killer for women in Latin America and the Caribbean and across the globe.
for ease of movement. Your head is resting effortlessly on top of the cervical spine. It feels like there is a string connected to the top of your head, pulling you toward the sky.
I'll show you in a little bit how cervical cancer develops. But just on one foot, cervical cancer can take up to 20 years to kill a patient. It comes from an infectious disease-- the HPV, the Human Papillomavirus-- and if you catch it within the first five years, you can treat it on the spot with, basically,
It's because women aren't screened. So every woman-- every single woman of reproductive age-- should be screened for cervical cancer regularly, whether it be every three years or every five years, depending on the technologies that we have available.
It can help in, one, identifying patients at risk. In our case, because we'll still use cervical cancer as our case study here, it can identify women at risk. Two, it can ensure that appropriate treatment is applied.
Because after that woman is examined, we need to communicate with that woman what it was that was seen and what it is that she needs to do. And if the appropriate treatment isn't there-- if it's not for cervical cancer, it could be for any other type of disease-- she needs to be referred.
And for those of you who might not know what that is, it's that you can't access abortion services in any circumstances, not even to preserve your own life. And I think the program I was talking about in Bolivia on cervical cancer is again a good example because we not
tips I want to share with you because I seen I I saw this a lot in my clinic a lot of cancer a lot of Cancer all types breast cancer prostate cancer cervical cancer and went so fast fascinating the World Health Organization has come out and said that shift work or uh overnight
Now, why is this important? Well, because the United States spends about $6.6 billion every year screening women for cervical cancer-- $6.6 billion. 55 million women are screened every year, and yet, 10 million women are not.
And you're not screening 10 million women at highest risk that do need to be screened. And that's why African American and Hispanic women in the United States have rates of cervical cancer that are almost equivalent, and in some places higher, than women in Africa and women in Latin America.
And that's just the beginning, right? Because what's fascinating is that these algorithms-- because remember, cervical cancer, just like many other diseases is visually assessable-- these algorithms we already know and love and deploy on an almost everyday basis.
And it's caused by a virus called the HPV virus. There are many strains of the virus, but two that really cause cervical cancer. And there is a vaccine that is available in developed countries.
And for those of you who might not know what that is, it's that you can't access abortion services in any circumstances, not even to preserve your own life. One thing that we are very happy to know now is that the vaccine that I was talking about to prevent cervical cancer, instead of having three doses,
Well Let's make this exponential. One last thing. I'm headed to Uganda next month to work on a cervical cancer awareness campaign. So if you have family or friends in Uganda, I'd like to take you out for lunch.
to understand what nerves are doing in their ambient environments. This is a lot of work that was done on the sciatic, the cervical vagus, and then we've done a lot of work on the splanchnic nerve as well. Working with Ken Yoshida's lab at Indiana University and Purdue University in Indianapolis, we're doing some neat work on depositing our electrodes
Although there is a vaccine now for genital warts called Gardasil, which came out which works really well, but it's not for people with the problem. It's for currently 9 to 13- year old pre-sexually active women to prevent the contraction of warts which can lead to cervical cancer. It's not approved for men, although that's being discussed. Should we give it to young boys, too? This is preventative. It's a vaccine, essentially. So once you have it, it doesn't
And so we decided to take dedicated caregivers, to provide them with mobile compute labs, and to help them make an evolutionary jump in their ability to provide health care quality, particularly in cervical cancer. So many of you already know this, but I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page.
to the life column. Now, what's fascinating is that, despite the investment in maternal and child health, since 2015, since recently, cervical cancer deaths have become more prevalent than deaths from maternal and child complications.
Interestingly enough, computer vision didn't really cut it there. But when you build a large enough dataset-- and currently, MobileODT is proud to have one of the largest datasets in the world on cervical cancer-- you can use that to identify disease at its earliest stages using nothing more than a visual image.
They are illuminated by the spotlights. And remember, in emerging markets in rural areas, and in rural areas in America, cervical cancer is a leading cause of death.
They are illuminated by the spotlights. And as part of the interviews, one of the women called that, "I saw my cervical selfie." They had this moment where it was