Helping the fight against cancer by spreading awareness or donating an amount to cancer research groups and/or institutes have always been a way to give back, but now an app has been created that makes it easier for one to help in the fight against cancer.
This app, which was created by three year collaboration between Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Vodafone Foundation.
Dreamlab, the app's name wants to use your phone when it is on standby to help cure cancer.
Participation in the app is easy, and if one is interested there is no need to worry about payment, because the app is free for download in Google's Play Store.
But make sure that the phone used is charging.
The app also has different choices of cancer researches to choose from, ranging from breast, prostate, ovarian or pancreatic, one can pick whichever he or she chooses.
In nominating the research one has chosen, the donation is through how much mobile network or Wi-Fi data one is willing to donate and each and every night one's phone will help the fight against cancer in Garvan's institute.
With thousands of Android users in Australia, the mobile network or the Wi-Fi data being donated will help the researchers crunch the number by creating a supercomputer.
According to Mashable Australia, if there are 100,000 Android users with Dreamlab, the team of researchers can process data approximately 3,000 times more than they are able to do now.
But if the number goes to a million users, say, five million users then the processing will be 150,000 times faster, that's a whole lot faster than anyone could imagine.
"As a nation who loves their smartphones, we now have a tremendous opportunity to put them to good use and help find a cure for cancer. Together, we can come to a greater understanding of how to treat it more swiftly," Dr. Samantha Oakes, head of the breast cancer unit at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, said in the statement.
