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Re:Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood by BiteCode_dev on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:33PM (#21634089)
This is true for any medical act you perform on a massive scale really. Including vaccination, supplementation, etc. Everything is a cost/benefit ratio.
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Re:Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood by tptacek on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:58PM (#21634270)
Yes, and this math has been done on many of those interventions (certainly for vaccination) and the benefit holds up. That statistical base rates are problematic for cancer detection is a pretty well-understood problem.
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