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AI helps determine if patient’s breast cancer could return after treatment, study shows

Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States, with 80% of patients diagnosed in the early stages. Tissue samples from more than 700 patients in Cleveland and worldwide were used as part of a two-year groundbreaking study, using artificial intelligence to predict whether cancer will come back.

“What we’ve identified is that there are features, patterns in the biopsies, that can actually tell us as to which cancers are more aggressive,” said Anant Madabhushi, a professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Madabhushi is the lead scientist in this two-year groundbreaking study.