Artificial intelligence (AI) faces a number of interesting hurdles in the EU, such as the still-developing Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), which seems destined to treat health care uses as high-risk propositions. Corinne Dive-Reclus, director of global lab insights at Roche Diagnostics, said there are possible solutions, such as overwriting the AI Act’s risk classifications with the risk category provided by existing regulations, but there is an open question as to whether a fix will be in place to prevent a potentially disastrous risk framework for AI in health care.

Breakthroughs in early detection of cancer offer increasing hope for better outcomes and longer lives for individuals affected by malignancies. This year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting highlighted strong results from several companies at the forefront of this potential transformation.