Survey on Data Mining Techniques for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Breast Cancer

Abstract

Data mining is currently being used in medical systems, growing as a new interest in research community. This paper surveys the application of data mining techniques for diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer. Each of these has different data sets and different objectives for knowledge discovery. Techniques of data mining (DM) help the medical professionals in decision making for diagnosis of breast cancer in order to avoid surgical biopsy.