AI Can Spot Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds

By David Nield – ScienceAlert

Pancreatic cancer is on course to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the US by 2030, in part because 85 percent of cases aren’t diagnosed until the disease has spread.

We’re just not catching it early enough.

Thanks to a newly developed AI model from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, that might be about to change.

Their new system, called REDMOD (radiomics-based early detection model), was tested on CT scans from people later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.