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      April 12, 2023 — A new AI tool named Sybil can spot early signs of the disease years before doctors would find it traditionally on a CT scan, say researchers at Boston’s Mass General Cancer Canter and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Sybil accurately predicted lung cancer within a year 86% to 94% of the time in one of their studies.

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