04/02/2026
🌍 World Cancer Day
Artificial Intelligence is already helping transform cancer care and the impact is real.
🩺 Earlier detection: In the UK, AI is being trialled across the NHS to help spot breast cancer earlier, supporting radiologists and improving screening efficiency for hundreds of thousands of women
🔬 Smarter diagnosis: AI tools in digital pathology are now helping pathologists detect cancer across multiple tissue types, speeding up diagnosis and reducing the risk of missed cancers
🫁 Predicting risk sooner: AI models can now analyse a single CT scan to predict lung cancer risk years in advance — opening the door to earlier, more personalised screening
This World Cancer Day, we recognise the clinicians, researchers, and technologists using AI to detect cancer earlier, diagnose it more accurately, and give patients the best possible chance.
💙 Innovation, collaboration, and technology are helping us move closer to a future where more cancers are caught early, and more lives are saved.