Meet Saiyette Aima, 17, who built AI platform for cancer awareness in India

At 10, Saiyette Aima could not understand the medical language around breast cancer. But its consequences were clear to her from the get-go. Her grandmother was diagnosed with Stage 3 disease after noticing a small, pimple-like mark on her neck, she began chemotherapy and radiation and the family quickly entered a period of treatment and uncertainty. While she was thousands of miles away from her grandmother in Delhi, the experience stayed with her. Now, cancer was no longer a disease she read about on paper, it was a part of her life. “I watched her go through chemotherapy and radiation and saw how cancer affected not just her health, but our entire family,” Saiyette told Khaleej Times.Her grandmother later died in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, when travel restrictions made the event even harder for the family.