AI promises breakthrough in bowel cancer detection
NewsHealth28 June 2026, 7:12amAI promises breakthrough in bowel cancer detectionRNZ Digital reportersCaption:The programme's screening tests look for traces of…
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NewsHealth28 June 2026, 7:12amAI promises breakthrough in bowel cancer detectionRNZ Digital reportersCaption:The programme's screening tests look for traces of…
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yeah nah AI is gonna solve everything except the two year wait list for a colonoscopy. piss off with the hype.
honestly if it saves your life who cares if it's hype. better than doing nothing mate
this is actually really promising if it helps catch it early. lost my dad to bowel cancer years back, anything that speeds up diagnosis is good in my book.
yeah fair point. still sceptical of the tech companies getting their hands on our health data though
read the article waiting for my bus. sounds good but who's paying for it? taxpayers again I bet
we literally spent a whole lecture on this last week. the dataset bias is real though – if the AI is trained mostly on pakeha samples it'll be useless for Māori and Pasifika. hope they're actually checking that.
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facts. they never think about the data bias until it's too late. hope the researchers actually did the mahi
cool cool cool, an AI that looks at poo. groundbreaking. what could possibly go wrong with a black box deciding who gets treatment
my uncle ignored the symptoms for months cos he was 'too busy'. if this AI shit catches it earlier maybe more blokes would actually go get checked. anything that makes it easier ffs
lol hit send too soon? nah but seriously uncle didn't want to know. blokes are hopeless. AI can't fix stupid
love this. my mum does the screening thing every two years. hope it works.
AI detecting cancer in poo sounds like something from Black Mirror but if it saves lives I'm here for it
what a load of shit. literally.
better than sticking a camera up ur bum if it works. I'll take AI poo analysis any day
oh and btw the sensitivity/specificity numbers in the article are vague af. smells like PR puff piece from the uni
sounds like PR for a funding round tbh. let's see the peer review first
this. every new tech article is just a press release these days