Fra åpningen av årets sommerutstillinger i #Fossekleiva kultursenter på Berger, Drammen kommunes beste #jordbærsted!

https://fossekleiva.no/

#FossekleivaKultursenter
#Sommerutstillingene2023
#kunst #galleri #utstillinger #BergerMuseum #CafeJebsen
#NorskTut #allheimen

Fra åpningen av årets sommerutstillinger i #Fossekleiva kultursenter på Berger, Drammen kommunes beste #jordbærsted!

https://fossekleiva.no/

#FossekleivaKultursenter
#Sommerutstillingene2023
#kunst #galleri #utstillinger #BergerMuseum #CafeJebsen
#NorskTut #allheimen

New blood test can help detect cancer early

https://www.dw.com/en/new-blood-test-can-help-detect-cancer-early/a-65891509?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#cancer #bloodtest #Galleri #Grail #Oxford #ASCO #detection #patients #treatment

The usual disclaimer: this is promising, but don’t count on great results.

If it works as advertised—if—it could be what #Theranos promised and so spectacularly failed to deliver. #Grail is using well-understood technology and (I think) large enough samples to make the claims for the #Galleri test believable, at least. And the #NHS (again, I think) doesn’t have the kind of incestuous relationships with financially interested parties that helped #Holmes et al. get away with such fraud for so long. So I’m inclined to trust their reporting.

With that said, the usual #statistician’s disclaimer applies: #multiple #testing is hard. So, for that matter, does the #medic’s and the #biologist’s, because there are multiple kinds of multiple testing going on here. The more you test, the more you will screw up.

I almost appended “it’s like a law of nature” to that last sentence above … but no, it is a law of nature. Unreasonable effectiveness of #mathematics something something.

#Cancer screening is important, and steady improvements in the field have already saved untold numbers of lives. I expect this will continue to be the case. So take this with cautious optimism. Pushing back the boundaries a little bit at a time, each small step representing another decade or year or month of life—it’s what we do, every day. I want to believe.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/02/blood-test-50-types-cancer-could-speed-up-patient-diagnosis-study

The usual disclaimer: this is promising, but don’t count on great results.

If it works as advertised—if—it could be what #Theranos promised and so spectacularly failed to deliver. #Grail is using well-understood technology and (I think) large enough samples to make the claims for the #Galleri test believable, at least. And the #NHS (again, I think) doesn’t have the kind of incestuous relationships with financially interested parties that helped #Holmes et al. get away with such fraud for so long. So I’m inclined to trust their reporting.

With that said, the usual #statistician’s disclaimer applies: #multiple #testing is hard. So, for that matter, does the #medic’s and the #biologist’s, because there are multiple kinds of multiple testing going on here. The more you test, the more you will screw up.

I almost appended “it’s like a law of nature” to that last sentence above … but no, it is a law of nature. Unreasonable effectiveness of #mathematics something something.

#cancer screening is important, and steady improvements in the field have already saved untold numbers of lives. I expect this will continue to be the case. So take this with cautious optimism. Pushing back the boundaries a little bit at a time, each small step representing another decade or year or month of life—it’s what we do, every day. I want to believe.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/02/blood-test-50-types-cancer-could-speed-up-patient-diagnosis-study