{"id":21476,"date":"2025-02-04T00:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21476"},"modified":"2025-02-04T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:29:15","slug":"major-breast-cancer-screening-ai-trial-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21476","title":{"rendered":"Major breast cancer screening AI trial to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly 700,000 women are to be recruited to take part in an NHS artificial intelligence (AI) breast cancer screening trial in England.<\/p>\n

Five different AI platforms will be tested across 30 sites from April to see if the technology can speed up diagnosis as well as free up radiologists.<\/p>\n

It comes as the government launches a call for evidence to help it shape its national cancer plan, which is due to be launched later this year.<\/p>\n

AI is already being tested in the NHS in a variety of ways, including helping to deliver cancer treatment, managing waiting lists and checking cancer scans. However, this is the biggest trial yet covering breast cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Women who are already booked in for routine NHS screenings will be invited to take part in the \u00a311m Early Detection using Information Technology in Health (Edith) trial.<\/p>\n

Screening is offered to those between the ages of 50 and 53 and then every three years until they turn 71.<\/p>\n

At the appointments, X-rays known as mammograms are taken to look for cancers that are too small to see or feel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Currently, two radiologists are required to review the images from each screening to ensure accuracy.<\/p>\n

However, it is hoped the AI being trialled will enable one of the speciality doctors to complete the process, freeing up radiologists to see more patients and, in turn, cut waiting lists.<\/p>\n

More than two million mammograms a year are carried out under the screening programme, so it could have a major impact on the workload of radiologists.<\/p>\n

Department of Health and Social Care chief scientific adviser Prof Lucy Chappell said the study could lead to a “significant step forward”.<\/p>\n

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said this should just be the start of a wider improvement in cancer care.<\/p>\n

He said “urgent action” was needed given cancer survival here was lagging behind other countries, promising to publish a dedicated national cancer plan to “unleash Britain’s potential as a world leader in saving lives from this deadly disease”.<\/p>\n

As part of that, the government has launched a call for evidence, urging patients, staff and experts to contribute ideas on the Change NHS website.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the Royal College of Radiologists said while AI had “immense potential”, the NHS was still 30% short of the radiologists it needed.<\/p>\n

“This study will take time to yield results. The need to build radiology capacity remains urgent,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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