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Beware barriers to the assessment of cancer patient financial hardship

AuntMinnie

Because factors such as financial distress have been linked to higher mortality rates among patients with cancer -- in part because people may not get the screening exams they need and thus present with more advanced disease, wrote a team led by Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, of the Ohio State University in Columbus.

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AI Identifies Non-smokers at High Risk for Lung Cancer

Imaging Technology

Current Medicare and USPSTF guidelines recommend lung cancer screening CT only for individuals with a substantial smoking history," said the study's lead author, Anika S. Deep learning is an advanced type of AI that can be trained to search X-ray images to find patterns associated with disease. Walia, B.A. Walia, B.A. ,