Health & Medicine Help classify cancer cells

[Calliegirl]

A new program needs people to help identify cancer cells from samples on slides.

Right now they are doing breast cancer samples, donated from people in clinical trials. They are not from animal testing.

We intend to share images with you from many different cancer types. To kick off, the data you are seeing and classifying in Cell Slider is from breast cancer trials. None of the amazing progress against cancer could have happened without clinical trials. From life-saving drugs, to advances in surgery and radiotherapy - trials are the only reliable way to determine whether new treatments are safe, what their side effects might be and whether they are better than the current approach.
Most trials include patients, in fact, 1 in 5 cancer patients in the UK now take part in trials.
The images you will see are taken from tissue samples that have been kindly donated to future research by patients who have been treated on trials in the past. Each image is completely anonymised and does not contain any personal information, nor does it contain any diagnostic of prognostic information.

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[FortyTwo]

Is it weird that I'm addicted to this?

I hope I'm actually doing some good here. Brilliant research idea.