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Is Cancer Solvable? (journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by ImaTigger 2434 days ago
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Found an open copy: http://shrager.org/vita/pubs/2019JLMEIsCancerSolvable.pdf

Re "real insight", quoted from the highlight: "Current medical research tries to minimize risk to the individual while maximizing benefit to society. Yet, in traditional research, no attempt is made to calculate the value to society of what may be gained by research. In contrast, GCTA seeks to maximize both individual and societal benefit based upon explicit quantification for each. One quantitative measure of societal benefit is information gain, which enables the prioritization of one option versus another at a specific moment in time. "

I can only read the abstract and it is only 41 words. Most of them are just buzzwords. What is the real insight in the article?