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Author(s) -
Virginia Hughes
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nature medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.536
H-Index - 547
eISSN - 1546-170X
pISSN - 1078-8956
DOI - 10.1038/nm1209-1339
Subject(s) - prostate cancer , gold standard (test) , false positive paradox , biomarker , medicine , cancer , computer science , biology , artificial intelligence , biochemistry
The gold standard for early detection of prostate cancer, PSA, has recently come under fire for its high rate of false positives. Virginia Hughes investigates some of the researchers hunting for better alternatives and asks whether their promises of creating viable—and profitable—biomarker tests will ever be realized.
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