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AI tool that reads your face could help doctors predict cancer survival, study finds

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 561 words · By Marta Iraola Iribarren
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Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed an AI tool called FaceAge that estimates biological age from photographs to predict cancer outcomes. The study suggests that the Face Aging Rate (FAR) can serve as a non-invasive biomarker for prognosis and personalized treatment planning.

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Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool that analyses changes in a person’s facial appearance over time to predict cancer outcomes.

Why it matters

It shows not just our emotions but the passage of time itself, and, it turns out, the state of health.

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Some people tend to look older than others, even if they are the same age.

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Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed an AI tool called FaceAge that estimates biological age from photographs to predict cancer outcomes. The study suggests that the Face Aging Rate (FAR) can serve as a non-invasive biomarker for prognosis and personalized treatment planning.

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Claim 1: “A team of scientists at Mass General Brigham in the United States has developed FaceAge, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can estimate a person’s biological age from a single photograph.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that researchers at Mass General Brigham developed FaceAge, an AI tool to estimate biological age from photographs.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute is a medical institute founded in 2009 at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) by the funding from founder and CEO of InterSystems Phillip Ragon and his wif…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragon_Institute
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eric Joseph Rubin (born 1958) is an American microbiologist, and infectious disease specialist. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rubin
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This glossary of artificial intelligence is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to the study of artificial intelligence (AI), its subdisciplines, and related fields. Related glossarie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_artificial_intelli…
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Claim 2: “The team has also launched a web portal, open to the general public, where anyone can submit a facial photograph to receive their own FaceAge assessment and contribute to ongoing research.”
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Claim 3: “Using FaceAge, researchers had previously found that patients with cancer were likely to appear about five years older than their chronological age, and that older estimates correlated with worse survival outcomes after cancer treatment.”
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Three separate web sources confirm that previous research using FaceAge found cancer patients appeared about five years older than their chronological age and that this correlated with worse survival outcomes.
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web search NEUTRAL — The algorithm indicated that cancer patients’ FaceAge averaged five years older than their chronological age. It also found that looking older was associated with worse outcomes for patients suffering…
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/new-ai-tool-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — Using FaceAge, researchers had previously found that patients with cancer were likely to appear about five years older than their chronological age, and that older estimates correlated with worse surv…
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/04/29/ai-tool-that-read…
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web search NEUTRAL — FaceAge, the machine learning tool created by researchers at Mass General Brigham, found that study subjects with cancer appeared five years older than their chronological age. The biological age of p…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/well/biological-age-facea…
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Claim 4: “The researchers analysed photographs of 2,276 patients with different types of cancer who received at least two courses of radiation therapy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital between 2012 and 2023.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic study-help websites and AI tools for students, which are completely irrelevant to the medical study at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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web search NEUTRAL — Need a Study.com Account? Simple & engaging videos to help you learn Unlimited access to 88,000+ lessons The lowest-cost way to earn college credit
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web search NEUTRAL — Master any subject with Studley AI. Trusted by more than 2,000,000 top students. Create beautiful and interactive notes, flashcards, quizzes and podcasts from any content. Study smarter, not harder.
https://www.studley.ai/
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web search NEUTRAL — StudyX helps students study with AI throughout the entire learning journey. Students can use it to get homework help, turn lectures and study materials into notes, generate flashcards and quizzes for …
https://studyx.ai/
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Claim 5: “FAR proved a more reliable predictor of survival outcomes over longer intervals than FAD alone”
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Claim 6: “Patients with both high FAD and FAR values were significantly more likely to have poorer survival outcomes.”
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The provided evidence consists of general definitions of the word 'patient' and does not contain any data regarding the correlation between FAD, FAR, and survival outcomes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Each year many hundreds of thousands of patients complain about the care they have received, and these complaints contain valuable information for any health services which want to learn about and imp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient
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web search NEUTRAL — Definition of patient noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 4, 2022 · In this article, we’ll make sure you never confuse patients and patience ever again by explaining the difference and providing examples of how they’re used in sentences.
https://www.dictionary.com/articles/patients-vs-patience
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Claim 7: “The researchers found that median FAR results indicated that patients’ facial ageing outpaces their chronological age by 40%.”
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The provided evidence consists of general definitions of 'median' from Wikipedia and math sites, with no mention of the specific 40% result from the FaceAge study.
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web search NEUTRAL — The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the "m…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 4, 2025 · Mean, median and mode calculator for statistics. Calculate mean, median, mode, range and average for any data set with this calculator. Free online statistics calculators.
https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/statistics/mean-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Median is the middle of a sorted list of numbers. To find the Median, place the numbers in value order and find the middle.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/median.html
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Claim 8: “Higher FAR was linked to lower survival, and the effect was strongest when photos were taken more than two years apart.”
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The provided evidence consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'higher' and a job site, providing no factual data regarding FAR and survival outcomes.
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web search NEUTRAL — high 2 of 3 adverb 1 : at or to a high place, altitude, level, or degree climbed higher passions ran high 2 : well, luxuriously
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/higher
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web search NEUTRAL — HIGHER definition: 1. comparative of high 2. used to refer to an advanced level of education: 3. in Scotland, an…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/higher
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web search NEUTRAL — HigherEdJobs Podcast Our hosts, along with guest experts, discuss job search strategies, news, and trends in higher education.
https://www.higheredjobs.com/
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Claim 9: “In a new study, they have found that Face Aging Rate (FAR), which uses photos to measure changes in biological age over time, can serve as a non-invasive biomarker for cancer prognosis.”
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Multiple sources, including references to a study published in Nature Communications, confirm that Face Aging Rate (FAR) can serve as a non-invasive biomarker for cancer prognosis.
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web search NEUTRAL — Their results, published in Nature Communications, suggest that Face Aging Rate (FAR) — which uses photos to measure changes in biological age over time — can serve as a non-invasive biomarker for can…
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1125569
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web search NEUTRAL — In a new study, they have found that Face Aging Rate (FAR), which uses photos to measure changes in biological age over time, can serve as a non-invasive biomarker for cancer prognosis. “Deriving a Fa…
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/04/29/ai-tool-that-read…
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web search NEUTRAL — Face aging rate, a measure of changes in biological age over time, could serve as a noninvasive prognostic biomarker for determining outcomes in patients with cancer, according to the results of a stu…
https://ascopost.com/news/april-2026/tracking-biological-age…
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Claim 10: “The study also calculated FaceAge Deviation (FAD), which estimates how biologically old or young the patient looked in a single face photo relative to chronological age.”
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Multiple sources confirm the use of FaceAge Deviation (FAD) to estimate biological age relative to chronological age from a single photo.
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web search NEUTRAL — The researchers also calculated FaceAge Deviation (FAD), which estimates how biologically old or young the patient looked in a single face photo relative to chronological age.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-photos-reveal-faster-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In this study, we developed and validated FaceAge, a deep learning system to estimate biological age from easily obtainable and low-cost face photographs. FaceAge was trained on data from 58,851 healt…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10516042/
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web search NEUTRAL — This study introduces **FaceAge, a computer system that uses deep learning to figure out a person's biological age from a picture of their face**.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMVacKFkjOY
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