The risk of recurring breast cancer in patients is being assessed using AI in a trial in one of the world’s leading cancer centres.

At Gustave Roussey hospital in Paris, a non-intervention clinical trial is taking place using AI to digitise more than 1,500 tissue samples from women with breast cancer.

French and US tech company Owkin has partnered with the hospital to run the trial aiming to classify patients between having a high, intermediate or low risk of their disease returning within five years.

Patients are not told of the AI results to avoid the risk of life or death treatment decisions being based on them.

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“It is never too late to make a positive change in your life,” said Jeanne Struve, a clinical dietitian with Lee Health.

Change can start with what you eat. “All the studies have shown that diets high in fruits and vegetables are just healthy overall and they do decrease the risk of breast cancer,” said Struve.

One in eight women is diagnosed with breast cancer—of that number 85 percent of women don’t have a family history, which means there are things you can do to increase or decrease your risk. “Soy has definitely been shown to decrease the risk of getting breast cancer and increasing survival rate if you are diagnosed with breast cancer,” she said.

In fact studies show, half a cup of tofu or soy milk a day can decrease your risk of breast cancer by 30 percent. “When we look at breast cancer, cruciferous vegetables really make a difference. Your cruciferous vegetables are things like broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, bok choy, kale, swiss chard, collard greens, those wonderful green vegetables,” said Struve.

Health experts recommend having some sort of cruciferous vegetable every day to lower your risk for breast cancer. “These vegetables contain a component called sulforaphane, and what that does is it suppresses the ability of the breast cancer stem cells to form into tumors,” she said.

It’s also important to limit things like alcohol, red meat, and high-fat dairy products which can increase your risk of breast cancer. “Your body is so wonderful. It wants to heal itself and food is the best medicine.

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According to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, about one in 833 men develop breast cancer in their lifetime compared to roughly one in eight women who will be diagnosed. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist has the story of how one man who discovered his breast cancer early, went through surgery and radiation to now become cancer free.

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MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Treatment options for breast cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy. There are several surgical options, depending on the severity of the cancer. A lumpectomy removes the tumor and a clear margin of surrounding tissue. This procedure is always followed by radiation therapy treatment to kill unseen cancer cells. Mastectomies involve removing the entire breast. After a mastectomy, a woman has the option to have reconstructive surgery, where a new breast is created using implants or skin flaps. In some cases, the surgeon is able to preserve the nipple. Sentinel lymph node removal is typically performed in addition to lumpectomies and mastectomies if there's is no clinical evidence that cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. Here, your surgeon will remove one or more of the first lymph nodes draining the breast, and check it for the presence of cancer cells. If these nodes are clean, it is not necessary to remove more lymph nodes. However, if cancer has spread to these lymph nodes, a complete axillary lymph node dissection, or removal of most or all of the lymph nodes in the armpit area may be recommended. Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells by either killing them or inhibiting their cell division. Once the drugs enter the bloodstream, they can travel and reach cancer cells throughout the body. Radiation therapy is performed following surgery or in combination with chemotherapy. It uses high energy radiation beams or particles to kill the remaining cancer cells, or keep them from growing. The main types of radiation therapy are external beam radiation, internal radiation, also known as brachytherapy, and intraoperative radiation. In external beam radiation, such as intensity modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, a machine called a linear accelerator delivers radiation beams from outside of the body to the cancer. It treats the breast from different angles while precisely targeting the tumor. Internal radiation therapy can be used after a lumpectomy or for women with early stage cancer. It treats cancer from inside the breast using hollow applicator tubes with a radiation source passed through them. In intraoperative radiation therapy, radiation is delivered during a breast sparing surgery, such as a lumpectomy, after the tumor is removed. The radiation source may be an external beam that comes from a linear accelerator. Or the radiation may be applied internally by inserting the spherical applicator from a mobile x-ray device into the breast. In either case, the radiation is limited to just the tissue that surrounded the tumor. Most breast cancers are hormone receptor positive, which means they need hormones in order to grow and spread. Hormone therapy works by blocking the cancer cells from receiving the natural hormones that they need. Tests on the tumor show if it has these hormone receptors. Targeted therapy uses specially designed drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies that act on specific molecules inside or outside of cancer cells. Tests on the tumor samples can tell whether they have target molecules for these drugs. For example, Herceptin is an antibody drug that targets and slows the growth of HER2 positive tumors. These tumors have a high amount of HER2 receptors, which are the target molecules for the drug.

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Breast cancer diagnosis starts with a biopsy to sample abnormal cells. If a biopsy finds breast cancer, there are several surgical treatment options depending on the type of cancer, most commonly lumpectomy and mastectomy.

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This animation explains what metastatic breast cancer is, the symptoms to watch for, and the wide variety of treatment options available. If you have metastatic breast cancer you will likely need to remain on treatment, unless you choose to stop it. Being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer can be overwhelming. But many people continue to live long, productive lives with breast cancer in this stage due to advances in treatment.