 The questions that cancer poses us are not easy to answer. They are about life, death, faith, love and so much more. With IBM Watson, doctors access a breadth and depth of information. Information that can lead to insights. Insights that help physicians identify unique cases and personalize treatment options for them. Because no two cancer patients are the same. And yet, there are thousands of cancer cases that physicians can learn from. The collective knowledge of doctors from the world over can now be shared across the planet. Cancer has gone through an explosion in the Indian subcontinent. The disease claimed 680,000 lives in 2014 in India, with an acute shortage of oncologists in the country. The ratio of specialist doctors to cancer patients is about 1 is to 1,600. As a result, 60% of cancer patients are unable to access quality cancer treatment, and almost 70-80% are diagnosed late, which reduces chances of their survival. As a doctor, my duty would be to do justice to my patient and that I do the best for my patient in terms of diagnosis, in terms of management, in terms of alleviating the patient's suffering. And there's so much of knowledge available in the world today, not just in terms of books, but also from conferences, also from journals. Knowledge is just bursting everywhere. Even if I put something on the internet, I'll get loads of information about that particular disease. And it would be good if technology would be able to help me in choosing the right kind of treatment for my patient. Cancer is a disease where the first treatment has to be the best. And it has to be based on evidence, avoiding over-testing. So how does one doctor gain insight? How can one doctor analyze millions of case files and identify treatment options? How can one doctor know about medical advances around the world? How can a doctor get assistance to make more informed treatment decisions? The first treatment is the best treatment for them. And multidisciplinary approach and access to all the literature available is what makes that first difference to the patient. Currently, we use a multidisciplinary tumor board, where three or four doctors sit and try to assimilate humanly impossible knowledge. I'm a robotic surgeon. I know the importance of technology at Manipal Hospital. Now imagine if we have an artificial intelligence like Watson we have at Manipal Hospital, which analyzes over 15,000 journals, millions of articles published and all the evidence available at one shot of fingertip, which is highly reliable and four oncologists put together, which is most evidence-based. What more an oncologist needs? And if I'm a patient, this is the best and first and best chance available. So we at Manipal, we welcome this Watson. It is not going to help doctors alone. This will be a privilege for patients to take that, which moves towards the most evidence-based approach to the patient and fantastic first and best chance, which is most important in oncology. The lives of the patients are in the hands of the doctors. There are two parts of any medical problem. There's the biology, which the doctors take care of. And then there is information. What Watson gives the doctors is access to research data, related case histories and current procedures. Information that helps a doctor identify potential treatment options. IBM Watson at Manipal Hospitals.