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posted by janrinok on Monday May 21 2018, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the dying-to-see-how-it-turns-out dept.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is urging the use of artificial intelligence to help diagnose cancer:

The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say. The NHS and technology companies should use AI as a "new weapon" in research, the PM will urge in a speech later.

Experts say it can be used to help prevent 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033 while aiding the fight against heart disease, diabetes and dementia.

High-skilled science jobs will also be created, Mrs May is to pledge. Speaking in Macclesfield, Mrs May will say: "Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths. "And the development of smart technologies to analyse 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."

Also at The Financial Times and The Guardian.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @06:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @06:13PM (#682300)

    SEER [cancer.gov] has been collecting cancer data continually since 1973. You can also check out Project Tycho [pitt.edu] who have digitized a lot of cdc weekly reports going back to ~1900. Some of this can also be found on the CDC WONDER [cdc.gov] site. There is also detailed mortality data going back to 1959 available from NBER [nber.org].

    Actually I doubt data like this is available for such long periods of time for any country except the US.

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