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Posted on 05/02/2026 8:53:13 AM PDT by libh8er
Pancreatic cancer is on course to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the US by 2030, in part because 85 percent of cases aren't diagnosed until the disease has spread.
We're just not catching it early enough.
Thanks to a newly developed AI model from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, that might be about to change.
Their new system, called REDMOD (radiomics-based early detection model), was tested on CT scans from people later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
In nearly 3 out of 4 cases, REDMOD successfully spotted the most common form of pancreatic cancer around 16 months before diagnosis. That's nearly double the detection rate of specialists reviewing the scans without AI assistance.
In some scans, REDMOD identified suspicious tissue patterns more than two years before diagnosis, and the team thinks it could spot cancer up to three years ahead of time.
"The greatest barrier to saving lives from pancreatic cancer has been our inability to see the disease when it is still curable," says radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist Ajit Goenka, from the Mayo Clinic.
"This AI can now identify the signature of cancer from a normal-appearing pancreas, and it can do so reliably over time and across diverse clinical settings.“
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Sounds like a good thing.
GREAT news! Thanks for posting. Health / life BUMP!
Finally something good.
I personally know two women, both in their early 60’s, that passed away from pancreatic cancer in the past two weeks. Awful way to go.
Good news.
“Thanks to a newly developed AI model from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, that might be about to change.” Some good news.
Wow!
My wife is a PC survivor. How they caught it was a fluke because they were looking at something else. When they got her into surgery the cells we literally a millimeter from a major artery. If they had waited a couple of weeks…it would have metastasized and she would be dead.
The surgery’s and chemo nearly killed her….a couple of times. The long term effects have not been fun either.
Finding it a year before it shows up would save so many lives. I guess the question is what would cause you to get a detailed scan BEFORE you show symptoms. In a lot of cases there is no historical or genetic link. Diagnostic imagining can do a lot of things—but getting them approved is often difficult.
No symptoms? That’s DANGEROUS! Book your preventive CT scan TODAY no matter how good you think you feel!
Great news. Guess it’s AI because now if it’s image recognition and ploughing through data, it’s called AI. Out with the old, in with the new.
how about we teach people to stop feeding/creating cancer, so then we don’t have so many cases to detect and treat?
I guess that doesn’t pay as well as tests and devices and treatments do, while the person suffers and maybe succumbs.
But hey, there are always more people to enable to get sick so doctors can still “practice” and get their pay!
All of that sleuthing might have been avoided with a good CT evaluation 8 years before the tumor was located.
Please elaborate.
Over my head,but thank you for sharing something so personal. Praying for you.
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