MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS: Space-age planet mapping technique could be used to help fight cancer

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It's a space-age technique normally used to map the surface of Mars.

 

But now scientists at the University of Manchester are putting it to another, more down to earth, use - helping to fight cancer.

 

Specialists from the university and the Manchester Cancer Research Centre hope the precise number-crunching method - known as a machine learning approach - will help assess the effectiveness of tumour treatments.