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Weekly News Brief: October 5–9, 2026

October 09, 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 October 5–9, 2026.

This week’s brief covers approval for AI-issued initial acne prescriptions under staged physician oversight in Utah, a benchmarking study that found consumer chatbots too inconsistent and unsafe for unsupervised endometrial cancer decision-making, and a deep radiomics model that improved prediction of distant metastasis from pretreatment CT in head and neck cancer.

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