Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by karmajunkie on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:38AM
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Thank you, her prognosis is very good—we caught it just early enough. There was a micrometastasis to the sentinel node but no further spread, and we're coming up on the 5 year mark next year.
Agree wrt sensitivity—obviously while this is novel and exciting to me at least, it bears further study before becoming part of the standard of care.
Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by robocat on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:02PM
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> [ABCDE] has a horrible sensitivity (50%-90% depending on the type). But if this technique also only has a 50% sensitivity...
If the sensitivity of the two techniques are not correlated, a 50% improvement on top of ABCDE would be fantastic.
ABCDE is awful, don't get me wrong. I've always felt it was like holding your finger out to see what the wind direction is like. It has a horrible sensitivity (50%-90% depending on the type, I'd err on the side of lower). But if this technique also only has a 50% sensitivity, that is what would bother me. Hopefully the sensors they are using are sensitive enough to detect these temperature changes well.