Health
AI Makes Nearly 100% Accurate Cancer Diagnosis from Urine – Freethink
A new AI-based technique can make a nearly 100% accurate prostate cancer diagnosis from a urine sample, potentially saving patients from unneeded biopsies.
An early, accurate cancer diagnosis can dramatically improve a patient’s outcome, but the tests used to diagnose some cancers are invasive at best and downright awful at worst.
Case in point: prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men, with more than 1.2 million new cases every year. Doctors usually screen for it by looking at the levels of a protein called prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in a patient’s blood.
However, the PSA test isn’t very accurate (70% of the…
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