Artificial Intelligence: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Mesothelioma Research?

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May recently unveiled a "new weapon" in cancer research: artificial intelligence (AI). She and medical experts say AI could prevent 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033. Pooled together and cross-referenced with national data, patients' medical records, lifestyle habits, and genetic information would be used to help the computer algorithms spot cancer earlier. "Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. And the development of smart technologies to analyze great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research."