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Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction

Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk.The AI computer software intuitively translates patient charts into diagnostic information at 30 times human speed and with 99 percent accuracy."This software intelligently reviews millions of records in a short amount of time, enabling us to determine breast cancer risk more efficiently using a patient's mammogram.This has the potential to decrease unnecessary biopsies," says Stephen T. Wong, Ph.D., P.E., chair of the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute.


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Working out helps fight breast cancer

Working out helps fight breast cancer

Physical activity may reduce breast cancer risk for African American women by as much as 12 percent.According to a new study led by Roswell Park, health experts say women of African ancestry are much more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer at younger ages - and have a higher risk of dying from the disease as well.At least two hours a week of strenuous activity can help reduce that risk.


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Breastfeeding for longer than 6 months can lower breast cancer mortality risk

Breastfeeding for longer than 6 months can lower breast cancer mortality risk

A new study of women 20 years after undergoing surgery for primary breast cancer shows that breastfeeding for longer than 6 months is associated with a better survival rate.Among breast cancer survivors who breastfed for >6 months, both breast cancer mortality and overall mortality risk were less after 20 years, according to the study published in Breastfeeding Medicine, the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.In "Breastfeeding Associated with Reduced Mortality in Women with Breast Cancer (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2015.0094)," Margaretha Lööf-Johanson, MD, Lars Brudin, MD, PhD, and Marie Sundquist, MD, PhD, University of Linkoping, and County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden, and Carl Edvard Rudebeck, MD, PhD, University of Tromso, Norway, examined the link between lifetime breastfeeding history and both breast cancer-specific and overall survival among women treated for breast cancer who had lived long enough for other causes of death to contribute substantially to mortality."This study confirms that the long-term maternal health benefits of breastfeeding are not only preventative in nature, but that it also has the capacity to reduce the severity of breast cancer," says Arthur I. Eidelman, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Breastfeeding Medicine.