A study by Imperial College London has found a sophisticated tool may be able to detect and diagnose endometrial cancer in just seconds.
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer type to occur in the uterus.
It’s usually detected post-menopause, but younger people can develop the cancer, too.
UK statistics say only around 10 per cent of those presenting with symptoms who undergo a biopsy are diagnosed with the cancer.
Treatment is almost always a hysterectomy, a surgical removal of the uterus, alongside other cancer treatments like radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
The iKnife, or “intelligent knife” was developed by Dr Zoltan Takats at Imperial College London in the UK.
It’s a modified surgical knife that uses heat to cut through biopsied tissue and analyses the smoke that evaporates to distinguish healthy tissue from cancer
The study found the iKnife had an 89 per cent accuracy rate when diagnosing patients.
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So, is AI acceptable?
Regarding medical advances yes.
Can’t argue with that, and we probably will never see the long term so all is good.
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