00:01Ella Terea's last mammogram was more than 20 years ago,
00:05despite the Mexican guidelines that recommend an exam every two years.
00:10She lives less than two hours from Mexico City,
00:13but the area around her village has virtually no modern healthcare infrastructure.
00:18The women of the Nahua people can barely afford the trip to the city,
00:22much less the $30 for a mammogram.
00:27The hospital doesn't have the equipment for this exam.
00:30We had to get up early today.
00:32I was already awake at 4 in the morning to start the trip up here.
00:39This is a private lab where women can be screened thanks to Mammotest,
00:44a start-up that was founded in Argentina 12 years ago
00:47with the goal of making mammograms available in remote regions.
00:51In the last few years, after expanding to Mexico,
00:56Mammotest has increasingly relied on artificial intelligence
01:00to speed up examinations.
01:03The technology automates processes,
01:05dramatically reducing waiting times for diagnoses
01:08that once took three to four months.
01:12We prioritise cases using a traffic light system.
01:15That is, we review 5,000 images and narrow them down to 450 high-priority cases.
01:22That's a volume we can handle in two to three days.
01:26It's a matter of life and death.
01:28Early detection of breast cancer significantly increases the chances of survival.
01:32In Mexico, however, many tumours are detected too late.
01:36As a result, breast cancer mortality rate here has risen by 3% over the past decade.
01:43Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women.
01:47About half of cancer cases are already at an advanced stage by the time they're diagnosed.
01:52This is mainly due to gaps in healthcare.
01:54And there isn't enough equipment and access is limited to urban areas
01:58and women from upper to middle income brackets.
02:02For Nahua women, preventative care is largely inaccessible.
02:10Because I didn't have the money and the screenings are so expensive,
02:13they cost so much.
02:15Well, that was the reason.
02:17I examined myself after taking a bath.
02:20I lay down and checked to see if I could feel anything.
02:23A lump or something like that.
02:28Mammotest aims to eliminate bottlenecks in the healthcare system.
02:32Thousands of screenings are needed, but there's a shortage of technology
02:36and above all, radiology specialists.
02:39The new technology transmits images to specialists who are supported by AI.
02:45This reduces the time spent on administrative tasks
02:48and has improved medical care for more than one million women
02:51in Argentina, Mexico and Spain.
02:56Thanks to AI, I can make the process more efficient.
03:00We used to need about 15 minutes for a report,
03:03five minutes for the actual medical assessment
03:05and ten minutes for the bureaucratic paperwork.
03:08I've reduced that time to seven minutes.
03:13The start-up plans to apply its innovation to other types of examinations as well,
03:18such as CT scans or electrocardiograms.
03:22It's an area of medical technology with enormous potential.
03:28Even though artificial intelligence will never replace the radiology professionals who interpret the results,
03:34it can automate certain parts of the examination process and help reduce costs.
03:39Christina Mendoza leads the lab.
03:42We're currently evaluating a new technology for mammography.
03:46The mammography machine can perform 3D imaging directly
03:49without the need for a technician to be present at the time of the examination.
03:54The machine does everything automatically.
03:58A rapid breast cancer diagnosis that, thanks to AI, can save lives.
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