IBM Watson enlists in the war on cancer

In the U.S., 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 in women will develop cancer over the course of their lifetimes. That sobering statistic comes direct from the American Cancer Society, a non-profit organization with roughly a century-worth of data on the disease. Cancer care and research is changing on almost a daily basis. "It's humanly impossible for any doctor to know all this information," said IBM's Chief Health Officer Dr. Kyu Rhee told Mashable. Even in his own practice, Dr. Rhee, who is an internist and pediatrician by training, would have turned to the ACS's information, manually searched and printed out relevant pieces for cancer patients to take with them.