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If early detection can make a big difference, then clearly that is the low hanging fruit of cancer research.
by intrasight 10y ago
If early detection can make a big difference, then clearly that is the low hanging fruit of cancer research.
- robryk 10y agoThis would require a test that is (a) cheap (so that it can be applied to basically everyone) and (b) has extremely low false positive ratio (because a particular kind of cancer is a rare thing). Repeat for every different kind of cancer. For these reasons I'm not sure that it'll end up being a lower hanging fruit than vastly better treatment of late detected cancer for the kinds that are usually detected very late now.
- ekianjo 10y agoIt's not that they are not trying. There are numerous studies looking for bio-markers to detect the presence of cancer, but from what I remember, it does not yield good results.