00:00It's about using artificial intelligence to be able to find the signature of the sort
00:07of aggressive prostate cancer that has the potential to be a killer.
00:13Because what we want to be able to do is identify men on diagnosis who have that really aggressive
00:19cancer so that we can tailor treatments and we can tailor follow-up and we can actually
00:25stop that cancer from being a killer.
00:28Artificial intelligence is useful for a number of reasons in many different fields, but in
00:32this case it's the speed and the reliability of computers that makes it so helpful.
00:37With so much information to trawl through, there's hope that AI can find those intricacies
00:42that could lead to results.
00:44Within a single human cell there is six foot of DNA data and this research is looking at
00:53hundreds of thousands of cells from 2,000 men with prostate cancer.
01:00So it is more data than any human being could ever analyse.
01:05What AI enables us to do is to look for patterns within that data that human beings just couldn't spot.
01:15The new research will hopefully give results within a fraction of the time of what humans
01:19might be able to do it in.
01:20Prostate Cancer UK think that it will be a matter of a few years before we see breakthroughs
01:24in the research and lives can be saved sooner rather than later.
01:28We have just agreed at Prostate Cancer UK to fund this research.
01:34It's going to cost one and a half million pounds and it's just starting now and what's
01:40really exciting about this research is that actually we should see results quite quickly.
01:45So within a couple of years, which again is an advantage of AI, if a human being was
01:51doing this, this would be a lifetime's research.
01:54Whereas because we can use AI, we can use computers, we can accelerate that process.
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