this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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That's particularly useful for pancreatic cancer, if it's accurate, reliable, cost effective, and practical in the real world.
In other words: not useful at all. (Didn't read the article because it already misuses the AI acronym in the title, indicating it was written by some idiot with nothing to say)
Article actually describes it well enough, how scientists trained a model on data from CT scans of patients who were treated for other conditions some time before being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
In my first sentence, I was referring to the combination of adjectives in the question by previous commentor. No one in today's health care systems is gonna pay preemptive screenings for saving peasant lives like yours or mine.
There are healthcare systems in the world other than the one in the usa
If course you do - if the cost of treating the patient down the line is going to cost you more. Public health systems have a vested interest in healthier citizens.
Problem is they are probably from the US which doesn't really have a public healthcare system.
Even in the US with private health insurance, those providers will pay for screenings that can save costs by catching something early. Sometimes that might be legally mandated, other times it’s based on cost/benefit. It all varies from plan to plan, but the more common a disease is the more likely they’ll pay for at least a low-cost initial screening.