by Artificial intelligence is used to find hidden cases of prostate cancer, said the science secretary.
Peter Kyle informed the Telegraph that the government is investing 168 million GBP in initiatives to use public data, and a main goal is to improve cancer screening on the NHS.
A leading worldwide initiative by Cancer Research UK received a financing of 10 million GBP to improve the cancer screening methods by identifying the most endangered persons and offering them personalized tests.
Funding will develop “AI-driven instruments that can predict the risk of cancer,” said Kyle and could save thousands of human lives a year.
The Telegraph launched a campaign in which there is a more targeted national screening program for prostate cancer, which focuses on men who are greatest risk.
This includes men over 50, black men, whose risk is twice as high as white men and people with a family history of prostate cancer.
Steve McQueen, Bob Willis and Chris Hoy are some of the top -class British men who have recently diagnosed the disease. Around 55,000 men are diagnosed in England annually and around 33 men die from the disease per day.
In addition to Stian Westlake for the Telegraph, Kyle, Chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council, said Kyle: “This financing will support the work on a project that will link health files with demographic features, family history and behaviors to identify higher risks of these devastating diseases, so that thousands of thousands of thousands of years of life will be saved for years.”
It is planned to create flexible national screening programs that can take more cases among people who can otherwise only be overlooked and diagnosed if the cancer was incurable.
Officials hope to replicate the success of the BRCA1 genetic screening. About 400 people have faulty BRCA genes who have a 60 percent chance of developing breast cancer.
This received widespread attention and became known as “Angelina Jolie Gene” after the Hollywood actress subjected a double mastectomy after finding out that she was a wearer in 2013.
The NHS now offers genetic tests for high -risk tests such as Jewish women in order to catch as many cases early as possible.
Mr. Kyle said: “Just like BRCA-Gen-Screening, who was heroically put in the foreground by activists like Angelina Jolie, revolutionized how we understand and manage the risk of hereditary breast cancer, this next generation of data-driven screening could do the same for more types of cancer, including prostate cancer.”
Scientists who lead the program hope that the NHS can make it possible to offer more frequent cancer screening sessions or screening at a younger age for those with higher risk, while those could be spared unnecessary tests at less risk.
People who were identified as a higher risk could also be sent faster for cancer tests if they go to their family doctor with possible symptoms.
The broader administrative data partnership lasts until 2031 and try to use data that is already available to improve the judicial service, education, health and public sector.
The simultaneous combination, standardization and interpretation of various data records is a discouraging challenge for scientists who are independent data acquisition and little crossover for decades.
However, the government is of the opinion that huge data reserves in combination with the power of AI computing could change the healthcare system.
The Cancer Screening project will create new models over the next five years to bring relevant data together and create algorithms that process and ensure that the results are precisely and reliable.
Antonis Antoniou, the program director and professor of cancer risk forecast at the University of Cambridge, said: “The strengths of the United Kingdom in the data resources in combination with advanced analysis tools such as KI offer enormous opportunities to connect different data records and unrestricted knowledge, diagnosis and diagnosis and diagnosis Prevention of more cancer. “
Dr. David Crosby, head of prevention and early detection of research at Cancer Research UK, told The Telegraph: “The most important thing we can do to exceed cancer is to find this earlier when the treatment is rather successful.
“With half a million cancer cases a year in Great Britain by 2040, we need a large shift in the direction of more precise diagnosis and detection of early cancer.
“The recognition program controlled by the cancer data combines the sources of health and creates the powerful new tools that doctors need to identify those with the highest risk of cancer and prioritize resources for them.
“The move -in towards a preventive approach to health care will not be easy and take time. Cancer Research UKS Investment in the program is an investment in the future of cancer treatment.”
Data is the key to change life for the better
By Peter Kyle and Stian Westlake
During the majority of our daily life, data are king -from digital maps that transfer us from A to B, to health apps that keep our fitness and sleep in chess, right down to streaming platforms that point out the next drama that we may want to adhere to.
For this government, it is the difference between successful guidelines that are rooted in evidence, and those who rely on hope, happiness or intuition on which no minister, the legislator or the chairman of the council want to rely on. Ultimately, data is the foundation of decision-making to ensure that guidelines, programs and financial resources do what you should do to change life for better.
By linking data from the government to the national student database, you can, for example, help to deal with the source of inequalities that catch too many British from childhood to the labor market, which helps us to take targeted measures to increase social mobility and the pollution of glass ceilings.
Or by better using it in the judicial system, we can understand that you will again result in the majority of the law if we apply it in the judicial system and understand the patterns of repetition and prevent the career criminals from adding more misery. And it can predict the effects that this government has expanded to younger employees who expanded national livelihood, so that millions that bring the hours to the wages they earn.
All of these examples combine that they were all possible by the UKRI partnership of the UK administrative data research.
It works to combine and understand the enormous abundance of data that is generated by state services, and has been bringing it to our world -class researcher and with the privacy of the public since 2018.
But we know that we continue and too many social and economic researchers – many of the best, of which are just right here in Great Britain – simply cannot access the data you need.
It is fragmented and silited and kept in various data records of various public organizations. This means that too many rely on knowledge from abroad, which offers a lot, but in 2025 simply cannot tell the whole history of life in Great Britain.
Access to the raw resource of all data and the implementation in a form that researchers can use is not an easy task. Although we have to expand our data science competence, we also have to build up relationships and other organizations that ensure data exchange ensures that they have the power to change life.
For this reason, Ukri is investing another 168 million GBP to continue the ADR UK’s work program to 2031.
This includes the continuation of our partnership with Cancer Research UK to develop AI-driven instruments with which the risk of cancer based on medical records, family history and behavior can predict.
Just like BRCA-gen-screening, which was heroically brought to the fore by activists like Angelina Jolie, how we understand and manage the risk of hereditary breast cancer, this next generation of data-controlled screening could do the same for further cancer types such as prostate cancer.
This financing will support the work with organizations and charity organizations such as Cancer Research UK, for example in a project that connects health files with demography, family history and behavior to identify those who have a higher risk of this devastating disease so that it can be treated early – maybe thousands of human life every year.
The ADR will also find knowledge for and help us to form our new national data library, a resource of the central government that brings together existing research programs and makes it easier for political decision -makers and public bodies to access data safely and use it safely to improve public services.
Since the incredible opportunities and challenges of technology such as AI are progressing at unprecedented speeds and we deal with the fate of our planet as climate changes, it was never more important to use data for the coming generations.
This government is driven by a change plan that changes the life of the British people from the growth of our economy, so that our Pay briefs continue to unlock opportunities for everyone, regardless of the background, and to build an NHS that is suitable for the future and is optimally using the opportunities in new technology.
Data can play a major role in the correctness and address the support of the government where it is most urgently needed.
Peter Kyle is the science and technology secretary; Stian Westlake is the executive chairman of the economic and social research council
