{"id":264701,"date":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264701\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:19:08","slug":"ai-assisted-mammograms-result-in-fewer-aggressive-and-advanced-breast-cancers-study-suggests-science-climate-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264701\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-assisted mammograms result in fewer aggressive and advanced breast cancers, study suggests | Science, Climate & Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI-supported mammography results in fewer aggressive and advanced breast cancers, according to a study.<\/p>\n

It detected more women with clinically relevant cancers and the authors say there’s a case for implementing it in screening programmes.<\/p>\n

The randomised control trial involved more than 100,000 Swedish women.<\/p>\n

Cancer<\/a> diagnoses after AI<\/a>-supported mammography were 12% lower, and the women were less likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive and advanced breast cancer in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

European guidelines recommend two radiologists read mammograms but some cancers still go undetected after screening.<\/p>\n

Estimates suggest 20-30% of breast cancers diagnosed after a negative screening and before the next scheduled one (interval cancers) could have been identified at the initial appointment.<\/p>\n

Previous studies and interim results of the Swedish trial found using AI increased detection compared with standard screening – but a key question has been if it translates into a reduction in interval cancers.<\/p>\n

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The women who took part in the trial were randomly assigned to either AI-assisted screening or standard double reading by radiologists.<\/p>\n

The AI was trained and tested with more than 200,000 breast exams from more than 10 countries.<\/p>\n

During the two years that followed, there were 1.55 interval cancers per 1,000 women in the AI group, compared with 1.76 interval in the control group: a 12% reduction.<\/p>\n

Eight-one percent of cancer cases were also detected at screening that used AI, compared with 74% of cancer cases in the control group.<\/p>\n

The rate of false positives was similar for both groups, at 1.5% in the AI group and 1.4% in the control group.<\/p>\n

The results from the trial have been published in The Lancet medical journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lead author Dr Kristina Lang, from Lund University, said the study – which took place between 2021 and 2022 – was the biggest so far to look at AI use in cancer screening in general.<\/p>\n

“It finds that AI-supported screening improves the early detection of clinically relevant breast cancers, which led to fewer aggressive or advanced cancers diagnosed in between screenings,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Dr Lang said using AI in healthcare “must be done cautiously” with constant checks to “ensure we have good data on how AI influences different regional and national screening programmes”.<\/p>\n

Jessie Gommers, a PhD student involved in the study, said AI-assisted mammography still needs at least one human radiologist but the results “potentially justify using AI to ease the substantial pressure on radiologists’ workloads” – which could cut waiting times for patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-supported mammography results in fewer aggressive and advanced breast cancers, according to a study. It detected more women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-264701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}