Speaking with our correspondent in an interview,
Durosinmi-Etti narrated that the planning procedure for a cancer patient which
usually took two hours now takes just five minutes.
He added that NSIA-LUTH was the only hospital/centre where
AI for cancer treatment was used.
“What is more important to me, and to us in Nigeria and
indeed other parts of the world, has to do with the development of what you
call AI. The beauty of it is that it’s now in use in the cancer field as well,
particularly in our own field of radiation oncology. And I’m happy to say we at
the NSIA-Cancer Center have introduced that. I told you we are short of
doctors, and specialists. But when they want to plan patients, a very good
oncologist will spend at least two hours or more when treating organs at risk
during cancer treatment.
“With AI, you can do that in five minutes. Not only that, it
does more than the doctors can do. AI also guides you on how to use the
machines. After all the treatment, AI does what we call treatment plan
evaluation to help you evaluate what you’ve done. And after all the treatment
is all over, it can give you a report. It gives you a dose volume histogram – a
graphical analysis of the treatment. Those who don’t use AI now complain of
burnout.
“With the AI, you can do things more clearly and accurately
and I am happy we have started doing that too in Nigeria.”
He revealed that the software that NSIA-LUTH made use of was
the Radformation package.
“There’s one we call EZFluence, it does a whole breast transplant. It does all the whole plan for you. It’s good for the doctor and better for the patients,” he said.