{"id":175960,"date":"2023-11-13T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-ai-predicts-who-is-most-at-risk-of-pancreatic-cancer"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:23:56","slug":"new-ai-predicts-who-is-most-at-risk-of-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-ai-predicts-who-is-most-at-risk-of-pancreatic-cancer","title":{"rendered":"New AI predicts who is most at risk of pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-predicts-who-is-most-at-risk-of-pancreatic-cancer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An AI that can identify the patients most at risk of pancreatic cancer could lead to earlier detection of the deadly disease, which currently kills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/types\/pancreatic-cancer\/detection-diagnosis-staging\/survival-rates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">88% of patients<\/a> within 5 years of diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> People with pancreatic cancer typically don\u2019t experience any symptoms until a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/drug-delivery-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tumor<\/a> is large or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/pancreatic-cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancer has spread<\/a> to other organs. As a result, most aren\u2019t diagnosed until their cancer is advanced and much harder to treat.<\/p>\n<p>Screening people without symptoms for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/pancreatic-cancer-screening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pancreatic cancer<\/a> could lead to earlier detection, but the only tests for it are expensive or invasive. As a result, they\u2019re reserved for the few people doctors believe are at high risk of pancreatic cancer, due to a family history of the disease, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI that can identify the patients most at risk of pancreatic cancer could lead to earlier detection of the deadly disease, which currently kills 88% of patients within 5 years of diagnosis. The challenge: People with pancreatic cancer typically don\u2019t experience any symptoms until a tumor is large or the cancer has spread to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}