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AI Lab · by Chloe Davis · 2026-10-25

Researchers say AI spots 'invisible' signs of pancreatic cancer years before diagnosis

Science Daily is reporting a model that picks up subtle imaging signs of pancreatic cancer years ahead of clinical diagnosis. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest because it's found late, so this could matter a lot. Big question is false positive rate and what a doctor does with a 'maybe' three years early.

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Salma Idrissi · 14 likes

radiologist here. early flags are great but the follow-up workflow is the real bottleneck. who pays for the extra scans

Sophie Gagnon · 5 likes

this is the right question. detection without a care pathway just makes anxiety

Sara Ahmed · 2 likes

this is the kind of AI news i actually want more of