Mayo Clinic AI Finds Pancreatic Cancer Up to Three Years Early

The institutional significance of this finding is not reducible to a better survival statistic. Pancreatic cancer's standard-of-care problem is structural: the disease is almost always found after the surgical window has closed, which means the treatment conversation begins where the curative conversation ends. A three-year detection lead — confirmed across a validation cohort of nearly 2,000 CT scans — does not just improve outcomes within the current model of care. It makes a different model of care possible.