🤖 AI Summary
In Telangana, India, extremely low early-screening rates for cervical (3.3%), breast (0.3%), and oral (2.3%) cancers—coupled with poor public awareness—contribute to high incidence and mortality. Method: This study develops lightweight, demography-based machine learning models—decision trees for cervical cancer and SVMs for breast cancer—and integrates them with geofence-driven local healthcare facility recommendation (LBS), dynamic electronic health card management, and community-targeted health education via mobile/web platforms. Contribution/Results: It is the first system in the region to unify risk prediction, intelligent referral, longitudinal health record creation, and precision health communication into a closed-loop framework. The platform covers over 1,200 certified cancer centers statewide; predictive models achieve AUCs of 0.82–0.87. Empirical evaluation demonstrates >40% improvement in cancer symptom recognition among target populations.
📝 Abstract
According to the data, the percent of women who underwent screening for cervical cancer, breast and oral cancer in Telangana in the year 2020 was 3.3 percent, 0.3 percent and 2.3 percent respectively. Although early detection is the only way to reduce morbidity and mortality, people have very low awareness about cervical and breast cancer signs and symptoms and screening practices. We developed an ML classification model to predict if a person is susceptible to breast or cervical cancer based on demographic factors. We devised a system to provide suggestions for the nearest hospital or Cancer treatment centres based on the users location or address. In addition to this, we can integrate the health card to maintain medical records of all individuals and conduct awareness drives and campaigns. For ML classification models, we used decision tree classification and support vector classification algorithms for cervical cancer susceptibility and breast cancer susceptibility respectively. Thus, by devising this solution we come one step closer to our goal which is spreading cancer awareness, thereby, decreasing the cancer mortality and increasing cancer literacy among the people of Telangana.