The Best Breast Cancer Treatment: NIRAMAI Solution

What are the symptoms of Breast Cancer?

Although Early Stage Breast Cancer can be found out easily in the modern era, there are some signs of early-stage breast cancer that a woman shouldn't ignore. The primary ones include:

1. Abnormal Mass or a Lump

2. Dimpling near the Nipple area

3. Asymmetry (Don't look symmetric)

4. New Lumps or Bumps near Armpits

5. Unusual Redness of the Skin

6. Warm to touch

What are the symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer?

Inflammatory Breast Cancer is actually a rare type of breast cancer.

It's symptoms include:

1. Affects the whole breast

2. Redness

3. Warm (In some cases)

4. Swelling (In some cases)

Note: Most of the time changes in the breast are due to some infection or other non-cancer-related cause or benign disease.

But in spite of this, it is highly recommended that the patient must tell about the changes in the skin to his doctor precisely.

An interesting fact about Breast Cancer:

Most of the breast cancer cases aren't genetic. Only about 5% to 10% of them are genetically inherited.

Source: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

What is Niramai?

Niramai is a Bengaluru-based startup working in the field of health care. The startup is mainly recognized for developing a solution for treating Early-Stage Breast Cancer that is affordable, accessible, and accurate. The highlight of this product is that it even works for women who are just 18 or older!

What is NIRAMAI Solution?

As said above, NIRAMAI Solution has become a pioneer in diagnosing and treating breast cancer. The Highlight of this solution is that unlike mammography, Niramai uses a radiation-free imaging method.

The solution uses AI for detecting early-stage breast cancers by doing thermal imagery/scan which is a combination of machine learning and thermography.

Plus, this solution has expanded its working ability to all women who are above 18/19 years of age.

This means that not only the screening is done in a radiation-free way, but also proves to be a boon for women who are younger than 45 years of age.

Key Features of NIRAMAI Solution:

1. Radiation free screening

2. 100% Privacy (No human required)

3. The product is portable

4. Low cost of usage

5. High accuracy

6. Also works for women who are above 18/19 years of age

7. Readily accessible because of portability

Recognition:

With such an extraordinary invention, the startup has already received much recognition from various startup organizations.

Some of them include:

1. The Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 under Innovative Mobile App for consumer

2. Winner of Amazon AI Conclave 2017 award in the Health Care category

3. Became one of the four startups from India that got selected for Google Launchpad Accelerator Program 2018

4. Aegis Graham Bell Award 2017 under Data Science

5. It won the International Contest Open-F@b promoted by BNP Paribas Cardif

6. Ranked in Smart CEO Top 50 startups

7. Tech30 - Ranked in Top 30 Innovations in 2017

8. A participant in Philips Healthworks program in India

9. Selected among the Top 100 tech-based startups across Karnataka

10. Recognized by Startup India

11. Startup of the week at Tracxn

12. Best Startup at Axilor 2017

13. Selected and Participated in Startup Night at Berlin Startup Night 2017

14. Selected in Nasscom 10k startups

15. Selected for Zone Startup

16. Selected for TATA Incubate Program

Team Members:

The Startup was Founded by Geetha Manjunath with Co-Founder Nidhi Mathur.

The rest of the team members include Surajit Mukerjee as Chief Business Officer, Vicky Nanda as Head of New Business Initiatives, Sridhar Ramanathan as Head of Quality and Regulatory Assurance,

Anurag Verma as Head of Engineering, Himanshu Madhu as the Tech Lead, Siva Teja as Data Scientist, Shireen Chopra as the HR Head, Thara S as Senior Solution Architect,

Revathi M M and Aastha Mishra as the Customer Success Manager, and Dr. Kanchana Gopinath as Senior Manager of Special Projects.

Manjula PG who is the Lead App Developer, Asha Rajendra a certified Thermographer, Minerva Panda - Research Associate, Piyushika Dulloo and Umar Farooq - Operations Manager,

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan - Clinical Research Scientist, Swathi Reddy - Lead Quality Manager, Sai Priya Rudraraju - Test Engineer, Pratik Katte, Ronak Dedhiya and Raghav Shrivastava - Research Engineers, Sumati Gurumurthy - Senior Operations Manager, Hari Haran V - Clinical Research Associate, Kousthuba TN - Senior Manager Regulatory,

Sushant Magoo - Software Engineer, Shruti Grama - Associate (Regulatory Affairs), Somdev Upadhyay - Corporate Sales and BD Lead, and Karthik A - Mobile Application Developer.