Re:Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood
by _Microft on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:30PM
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The numbers were taken from a parent posters post to illustrate that things are not necessarily what they seem with probabilities.
The particular types of cancer are leading the list of most casualties by cancer-type by the way. See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-cancer-deaths-by-ty...
Re:Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood
by BiteCode_dev on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:31PM
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Yes but 5% of false positive raise the price of this a lot for a large scale campaign.
Some cancers like pancreatic are a death sentence because it's usually caught too late.
"Toshiba says its device tests for 13 cancer types with 99% accuracy from a single drop of blood"
"The test will be used to detect gastric, esophageal, lung, liver, biliary tract, pancreatic, bowel, ovarian, prostate, bladder and breast cancers as well as sarcoma and glioma."