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Teens Developed App That Identifies Mouth Cancer–Making Early Diagnosis Easy and Winning $50k for Their School

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A team of Arkansas high schoolers is using AI to help their community combat oral cancer.

Using a photo taken on a smartphone, the Oral Scan app detects signs of oral cancer at an 82% success rate.

52,000 Americans are diagnosed with oral cancer every year , and more than 12,000 died as a result.

Early detection of oral cancers can boost survival rates by 40% , but such cancers are detected early in only 30% of cases.