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Weekly News Brief: August 17–21, 2026

August 21, 2026 By ASCO AI Staff 3 min watch
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To catch up on all of the news from this past week, listen to our weekly news brief for the week of August 17–21, 2026.

This week’s brief covers a Bayesian machine learning model that predicts risk across 348 diseases from health records and genetics, ASCO evidence integrated into Jiro’s practice intelligence platform, and an AI-based tumor cell density measure that identifies which patients with rectal cancer are likely to benefit from intensified neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

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