{"id":748160,"date":"2026-08-24T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748160\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:20:15","slug":"southampton-ai-uncovers-hidden-clues-in-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748160\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton AI uncovers hidden clues in breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study found two different types of changes inside cancer cells that had previously been treated as the same thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One type involved cells developing too many centrosomes, which help cells divide properly. The other involved centrosomes becoming unusually large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers discovered the two changes could appear in different parts of the same tumour and may play different roles in how cancers develop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team created an AI platform, called CenSegNet, to examine tumour samples with &#8220;unprecedented speed and precision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centrosomes act as the cell&#8217;s organising centres, helping cells divide and maintain their structure. When they become abnormal, cells can build up genetic mistakes, which are commonly seen in cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The researchers found tumours with higher numbers of enlarged centrosomes were more likely to have features linked to more aggressive disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These included higher tumour grade, cancer that had spread to nearby lymph nodes and certain genetic changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study also found patients with fewer enlarged centrosomes in the centre of their tumours tended to have better overall survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study found two different types of changes inside cancer cells that had previously been treated as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}