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AI for breast cancer screening

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Whether support from artificial intelligence (AI) models improves breast screening is a topic of research in national cancer screening programmes and clinical oncology. Three studies now show that AI tools can assist radiologists with evaluating mammograms, substantially reducing workloads and possibly improving screening performance.

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Fig. 1: Current standard approach and potential implementation of AI into the pathway for mammography scans evaluation.

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    Allan Hackshaw

  2. Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK

    Rosalind Given-Wilson

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Hackshaw, A., Given-Wilson, R. AI for breast cancer screening. Nat Cancer 7, 402–404 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-025-01109-8

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