May 7, 2026 at 5:50 am Updated May 7, 2026 at 5:50 am A new artificial intelligence model developed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer up to three years before most clinical diagnoses, allowing curative treatment. The AI identifies subtle signs of disease before tumors are visible on routine abdominal CT scans, Mayo reports. “The greatest barrier to saving lives from pancreatic cancer has been our inability to see the disease when it is still curable,” senior author and Mayo Clinic radiologist Ajit Goenka said in a Mayo release . “This AI can now identify the signature of cancer from a normal-appearing pancreas, and it can do so reliably over time and across diverse clinical settings.” Researchers fed the AI model nearly 2,000 CT scans, including those from patients later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Mayo’s website states. All the scans were originally categorized as normal, showing no cancer.…