Not something a doctor can do, but Healthcare can. By making the process faster shorten the period of uncertainty. Partly by optimizing the way data is and can be shared, you would be surprised how hard that is even within a single hospital, much worse with multiple or country/state boundaries. Next, digitize and automate using NN and deep learning reducing the burden on doctors allowing them to run more cases a day. We can further reduce the time period case by optimizing reporting, especially for a regular 2 minute case they spend most time on filling the report. Much of which can be automatically filled.
If we cut all these times you could get a diagnose much faster than 2 weeks.
Of course next step is to monitor every day so we detect before cancer actually manifests. Start treatment so early it never gets a chance. Using all sorts of monitoring. Wristbands are the proof of concept, but in say 10 years that will mature and maybe we get a constant monitoring realtime watched by a digital MD watchdog. Who knows.
Be careful what you ask for. More monitoring and testing leads to more false positives, more expenses, and more invasive treatments for conditions that might never have caused any serious symptoms if just left alone.
I agree with the first sentence but not with the latter. Right now The top 5% of al patients accounts for 50% of the spending [0]. The public reference does not go into depth but it closely resembles our internal studies. We also predict that remote monitoring and early detection can severely reduce the costs for that top 5 percent. In addition, a large group will never become the top 5 percent. Finally, I think we can get the number of false positives under control or well guarded at a first line of checkups.
When I read your first line I was thinking you would say "who wants to be monitored all day". I think the ethics aspects requires attention. Do we even want to go that route from a human perspective?
If we cut all these times you could get a diagnose much faster than 2 weeks.
Of course next step is to monitor every day so we detect before cancer actually manifests. Start treatment so early it never gets a chance. Using all sorts of monitoring. Wristbands are the proof of concept, but in say 10 years that will mature and maybe we get a constant monitoring realtime watched by a digital MD watchdog. Who knows.