to overi million women to gain access to the ai screening. it has been a few weeks sincejune's biopsy — i caught up with her via videocall. i wondered how she felt about an ai assisting in such sensitive work. your images are on—screen and people are looking at them. whereas when it's an artificial intelligence, that feeling that somebody is looking in on has gone. the biopsy showed that i do have an early—stage cancer, we've certainly caught it at an earlier stage this time, but because i have had previous history with it, i'm going to go in and have a mastectomy — it's not the treatment i want to have, but at the same time it is reassuring that it has been caught. screening programmes are crucial for improving patient outcomes. for now, medical staff are still the first line of defence in protecting against breast cancer,