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Time to Tweak that Business Plan

Aug 12, 2008

If you're working on a cancer diagnostic, don't read this. The New York Times reports on last week's recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force that doctors "stop screening older men for prostate cancer" -- a development that seems to go against the concept of early detection that drives so much of the biomedical field. Evidently, a data analysis of prostate cancer over many years suggests that there's little benefit to screening, and that for older men, it even "does more harm than good."

 

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