AI predicts cancer risk

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence could be used to predict people’s risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

US scientists asked a computer to analyse six million patient records, 24,000 of whom had developed pancreatic cancer, and it worked out which patterns of other health conditions were associated with an increased risk of the disease.

It then picked up the patients who developed the disease 88 per cent of the time. The programme could lead to better screening for early detection of a disease that kills four out of five within a year of diagnosis.