FILE - A file image shows a consultant analyzing a mammogram showing a womans breast in order check for breast cancer. (Photo by Rui Vieira - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images) Oncologists in the U.K.
have developed an AI model to help predict whether aggressive forms of breast cancer will spread based on changes in a patient’s lymph nodes.
The research was published Thursday in the Journal of Pathology by Breast Cancer Now and funded by scientists at King’s College of London.
Secondary or "metastatic breast cancer" refers to when breast cancer cells spread to other parts of the body. Although treatable, it can’t be cured.