AI tools can estimate cancer patient’s chances of surviving long term

New York: Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based tool for estimating a newly-diagnosed cancer patient’s chances for surviving long term.

The new machine learning tool can estimate a patient-specific prognosis for breast, thyroid, and pancreatic cancers.

A cancer survival calculator prototype developed with machine learning showed that for each of the three cancer types tested, more factors than the cancer stage significantly influenced patients’ survival.

Currently, estimating survival rates for patients with cancer primarily depends on their cancer stage, said lead study author Lauren Janczewski, a general surgical resident at Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago.