UK Scientists Create AI Tool For Breast Cancer
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithm created by UK researchers can determine whether breast cancer has progressed to the liver, lungs, brain, or bones.
The structures beneath the arm that serve as one of the first sites where breast cancer might spread in women with triple negative breast cancer, the lymph nodes, can be examined for changes using an AI model created by a team at King’s College London.
About 10–15% of all breast tumours are triple negative, and these tumours can be more aggressive. In the early years after therapy, it is also more likely to come back or spread.
The AI model, described in the Journal of Pathology, examines the immune response in the lymph nodes to find signs of triple negative breast cancer spreading.
On more than 5,000 lymph nodes that 345 patients gave to biobanks, her team tested the AI model. They validated the AI model’s ability to forecast the likelihood that the sickness would spread to other organs through testing.
The researchers are hoping that this AI model will eventually be put through clinical trials and that it might one day help doctors plan treatments.
(With inputs from Shikha Singh)
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