2024-02-13 11:57:39
According to figures from Public Health France, prostate cancer remains the most common in men with 59,800 new cases in 2018. As pointed out Ameli Health, it remains complicated to distinguish those which will become aggressive and which must be treated, from cancers which will progress very slowly and which therefore do not require treatment. “This is the case for almost half of prostate cancers detected. We therefore risk operating on a patient or giving him treatment that he would not have needed.“, reports the site.
But, once again, artificial intelligence will perhaps provide an answer to this problem. The Sun reports that it would be able to quickly detect prostate cancer and prevent the appearance of certain side effects. According to the charity Macmillan Cancer Support, this medical platform – developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge – would detect the presence of this cancer and avoid unnecessary biopsies by precisely analyzing the examinations carried out.
Unreliable exams
“This has the potential to avoid thousands of unnecessary biopsies, easing pressure on workforces and budgets. For patients, this would mean avoiding anxiety, unpleasant treatments and sometimes dangerous side effects“, says Professor Richard Simcock of Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Conventionally, diagnosis is made with a digital rectal exam or via a blood test that measures prostate-specific antigen. But these two examinations as screening tests are insufficiently reliable. For Tanya Humphreys, director of innovation at Macmillan, this new tool “has the potential to transform prostate cancer diagnosis“.
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