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Breast cancer's shockingly high fatality rate in India is due in large part to the fact that it is mostly detected at later stages

This October, Google announced that a deep learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm called LYmph Node Assistant, or Lyna, that it had developed last year has reported a 99 per cent accuracy in detecting breast cancer. An even more heartening news is that similar cutting-edge technologies for cancer detection are already in use in India, where a few health-tech firms are employing them to test for breast cancer — a disease which has a 50 per cent fatality rate in the country. 

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