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AI helps doctors detect more breast cancer in the largest real-world study

The results show AI could streamline the cancer screening process

Woman in a hospital gown getting a mammography with the help of a health care worker.

AI rivals doctors’ ability to interpret mammograms, a real-world study with nearly 500,000 participants in Germany suggests.

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By McKenzie Prillaman

Breast cancer detection could get a boost from artificial intelligence.

When AI helped examine mammograms, doctors caught one more cancer case per 1,000 screened individuals compared with when they didn’t use the technology, researchers report January 7 in Nature Medicine.