Reed Jobs was 12 when his father, Apple founder Steve Jobs, received a harrowing diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. He died eight years later at age 56.That tragedy led the younger Jobs to become an investor funding companies focused on preventing people from dying of cancer, which currently kills more than 600,000 a year in the United States alone.“We think it’s going to go from a death sentence to just a chronic lifelong disease,” Jobs told Forbes. “I think it’s doable in the timeframe of my lifetime for most ...

Reed Jobs was 12 when his father, Apple founder Steve Jobs, received a harrowing diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. He died eight years later at age 56.That tragedy led the younger Jobs to become an investor funding companies focused on preventing people from dying of cancer, which currently kills more than 600,000 a year in the United States alone.“We think it’s going to go from a death sentence to just a chronic lifelong disease,” Jobs told Forbes. “I think it’s doable in the timeframe of my lifetime for most ...

Hey everyone, I'm Michael Zephr leading healthcare AI initiatives at NVIDIA. Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in America. 80 to 85% of cases are diagnosed too late for effective treatment.But what if AI could help detect these deadly tumors earlier. Enter PANTS, the world's largest pancreatic tumor data set. 23 radiologists spent years annotating over 36,000 CT scans from 145 hospitals worldwide.Not just tumors, but 24 surrounding organs to give AI complete anatomical context. T ...