AACR progress report highlights AI’s role in research and clinical care

AACR progress report highlights AI’s role in research and clinical care
Obstacles to progress include systemic disparities and dwindling appropriations

Artificial intelligence is starting to transform life sciences by accelerating drug discovery and development, optimizing clinical trials, and creating personalized treatments for cancer patients, speakers said at the Sept. 18 unveiling of the American Association for Cancer Research 2024 Cancer Progress Report. 
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NCI funds a $3.7M effort to develop AI that predicts breast cancer risk while addressing health disparities

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Intel received a five-year, $3.7 million NCI grant for a multi-site study developing a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence approach—called federated learning—which aims to improve breast cancer risk prediction and reduce health inequities in cancer prevention care. 
ACS is using an AI-powered platform in the largest-ever population study of Black women
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ACS is using an AI-powered platform in the largest-ever population study of Black women
Time and resources freed up from data management will go to outreach and access

VOICES of Black Women, the largest population study of Black women in the United States, will be the first of American Cancer Society’s large-scale population studies to be initiated using an AI-driven data management platform—promising to bring observational cancer research out of the age of Excel data files and email sharing.