Bowel cancer: Artificial intelligence can reduce overtreatment and wrong treatment

In 2018, more than 4,500 people in Norway were treated for colon cancer. This is the most common cancer in Norway with a rapid increase over the past 50 years, according to the Norwegian Cancer Society (NCS). A new method, based on artificial intelligence, can now make sure many of these patients don't get overtreated or wrongly treated. "For many people, there is no effect of the treatment and it is just a nuisance," said Håvard Danielsen, professor at the University of Oxford and the Department of informatics at the University of Oslo. "We want to stop treating or give another treatment to these patients."