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BREAST cancer affects one in ten women in the West, and kills more women than any other form of cancer. But by borrowing techniques from artificial intelligence, it’s proving possible to assess just how serious a particular case is, which could help doctors decide how to treat it.

Breast cancer itself can be relatively easy to treat if caught in time. As with most cancers, the danger is that it will spread to other parts of the body, especially if treated incorrectly. When tested on 100 women, the new technique proved to be nearly 90 per cent accurate at predicting…

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