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OncoMark is an AI-powered diagnostic tool developed by Indian researchers from the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in collaboration with Ashoka University. It maps cancer’s molecular hallmarks to provide highly personalised treatment strategies and more precise diagnosis. Unlike conventional staging methods, OncoMark identifies key biological programs such as metastasis, immune evasion, genomic instability, and uncontrolled proliferation, enabling individualised therapy plans. Trained on 3.1 million single cells across 14 cancer types and validated on 20,000 patient samples, it achieves over 99% internal accuracy and more than 96% accuracy across independent datasets, marking a major advancement in precision medicine in India.