"NHS England is to trial a combination of AI and robot-assisted care to speed up the detection and diagnosis of lung cancer, the UK's most lethal form of the disease. The trial comes at the same time as the health service pledges to offer all smokers and ex-smokers the chance to be screened for lung cancer by 2030. That expansion will lead to an estimated 50,000 lung cancers being diagnosed by 2035, of which 23,000 will be at early stage, which could save thousands of lives, it said."
"In the trial, AI software will analyse lung scans and alert doctors to the presence of small lumps some just 6mm long, the size of a grain of rice that are most likely to be cancerous. A robotic camera will then guide the miniature tools used to undertake a biopsy, to produce a sample of tissue that can be analysed in a laboratory more precisely than with existing techniques. That will enable potentially cancerous nodules hidden deep in someone's lung, which are hard to spot at present, to be removed and examined."
NHS England will trial AI and robot-assisted care to accelerate detection and diagnosis of lung cancer and expand screening to all smokers and ex-smokers by 2030. The screening expansion is expected to identify about 50,000 lung cancers by 2035, with roughly 23,000 diagnosed at an early stage, improving survival chances. Lung cancer causes about 33,100 deaths yearly in the UK and disproportionately affects deprived populations, contributing to a large life-expectancy gap. The trial uses AI to flag tiny nodules on scans and a robotic camera to guide biopsy tools to obtain precise tissue samples for laboratory analysis.
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