Photo: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Doctors, scientists and researchers have built an artificial intelligence model that they hope will eventually improve early detection of cancer, highlight high risk patients and fast track them to earlier intervention. Designed by experts at the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Imperial College London, the AI tool can identify whether abnormal growths found on CT scans are cancerous, more efficiently and effectively than current methods. Lung cancer, which accounts for one fifth of cancer deaths in the UK, is a good example of why new initiatives to speed up detection are urgently needed, as more than 60% are diagnosed at later stages. "People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stage are much more likely to survive for five years, when compared with those whose cancer is caught late," said chief investigator, Dr. Richard Lee.
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