By David Nield
Publication Date: 2026-05-01 04:29:00
Pancreatic cancer is expected to be the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States by 2030, in part because 85 percent of cases are not diagnosed until the disease has spread.
We just don’t catch it soon enough.
That could soon change thanks to a newly developed AI model from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Their new system, called REDMOD (Radiomics-based Early Detection Model), was tested using CT scans of people who were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
In almost three out of four cases, REDMOD was able to successfully detect the most common form of pancreatic cancer approximately 16 months before diagnosis. That’s almost double the detection rate of specialists who review the scans without AI support.
In some scans, REDMOD identified suspicious tissue patterns more than two years before diagnosis, and the team believes it could detect…
