‘C the Signs’ artificial intelligence program scans medical records to increase likelihood of spotting cancers
A GP with a patient: the C the Signs AI tool is used in about 15% of GP practices in England.A GP with a patient: the C the Signs AI tool is used in about 15% of GP practices in England.The rate of cancer detection rose from 58.7% to 66.0% at GP practices using the “C the Signs” AI tool.
Bakshi and her colleagues also sought to validate the tool by assessing 118,677 patients in a previous study, which found that 7,295 were diagnosed with cancer and 7,056 were successfully identified by the algorithm. The UK has three cancer screening programmes, for bowel, breast and cervical cancers, but there are 200 different types of cancer which may be asymptomatic or create symptoms easily confused with other conditions.
“The test was positive, he was referred and he turned out to have colorectal cancer, which was diagnosed early and treated successfully,” Holloway said. “He’s fine, but if we’d followed the rigid guidelines, he may not have got referred for several months.”England Long Term Plan for Cancer aims to have 75% of all cancers diagnosed by stage one or stage two by 2028.
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