Screening for pancreatic cancer using artificial intelligence

Dr. Ananya Malhotra speaks to News-Medical about her latest research into pancreatic cancer, and how its prognosis could be improved by using artificial intelligence. The prognosis of several cancers, including pancreatic tumors, has hardly improved in the last decades, contrasting with a general dramatic increase in survival for most cancers. We felt that a new approach was required. Pancreatic cancer is a very rare disease (8-12 new cases diagnosed every year in a population of 100,000). Due to such a low incidence of this disease, screening the whole population is neither practical nor appropriate.