The Cleveland Clinic says AI is being evaluated as a tool that can assess the likelihood of prostate cancer, identify suspicious locations, and help guide surgeons during biopsies.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) —September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, a time doctors and advocates are urging men to get screened for a disease that remains the second-leading cause of cancer death for men in the United States.
Dr. Sheldon Jacobs said he was diagnosed with prostate cancer a little more than two years ago, when he was 45, and the news “caught me off guard.”
Jacobs also described a serious, blood clotting complication after a biopsy in May. “I knew something was wrong; five, six days after that biopsy so my wife had to rush me to the ER, I was in a lot of pain, discomfort,” he said. “Luckily she got me to the ER in time because the situation could’ve been a lot worse.” Jacobs said he ended up in the hospital for almost four days.
His experience has been shaped by loss in his family as well. Jacobs said his father recently died from prostate cancer after living with the disease for almost a decade. He said his father was diagnosed at stage 4 and that he wants to raise awareness. “He wasn’t going to the doctor on a regular basis, wasn’t getting checked on a regular basis.”
According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, about one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer over his lifetime, about the same rate for women and breast cancer. For Black men, the Foundation says the rate is higher, at one in six men. The disease can advance without symptoms.
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Researchers are also studying whether <a href="https://bitcomme.com/not-micron-not-alphabet-heres-my-top-artificial-intelligence-ai-stock-pick-for-the-next-3-years/" title="Not Micron. Not Alphabet. Here's My Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Pick for the Next 3 Years.”>artificial intelligence can help with diagnosis. The Cleveland Clinic says AI is being evaluated as a tool that can assess the likelihood of prostate cancer, identify suspicious locations, and help guide surgeons during biopsies.
“And so, the way this technology works is that we use artificial intelligence to fast track that process where the images are analyzed by the computer algorithm and then the results are sent to us,” said Dr. Andrei Purysko of the Cleveland Clinic. “That makes the interpretation of the images fast and potentially even more accurate.”
The technology is currently being used as part of a clinical trial.
For Jacobs, the research is another reason for optimism as he continues to recover. He said he has added kale and flax seeds to his diet, which he believes helped. He also said he is monitoring his health with regular testing.
“Hopefully soon,” Jacobs said when asked when he might be in the clear. “Right now, the plan I have with my doctor is two PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) tests a year. I had one last week and the numbers have been the lowest in about 3 or 4 years. They’re continuing to go down so hopefully that they’re even lower than that, and one day I can come back on the air and say I’m cancer free.”
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