Home screening test for oral or throat cancer has 90 per cent accuracy

A new diagnostic tool uses artificial intelligence to detect oral and throat cancers from saliva samples with more than 90 per cent accuracy. Estimates suggest there will be 54,000 new cases of oral cancer and 20,640 new cases of oesophageal cancer in the US alone this year. The respective 5-year survival rates for these cancers are 68 and 20.6 per cent, but when detected early, those numbers jump to more than 86 and 47 per cent. The issue is that most oral and throat cancers aren't detected early. Current screening methods rely on visual examinations by a healthcare provider.