This Month in Healthcare AI (August 2026)

Mayo Clinic researchers reported that their REDMOD model can flag pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to three years before diagnosis, correctly identifying most pre‑diagnostic cancers that had been read as normal. The same update describes an AI model called Oncoformer that predicts cancer up to a year in advance using routine records and chest X‑rays, as well as new clinical features in ChatGPT for interpreting health data.