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Cerumenogram: A new frontier in cancer diagnosis in humans (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
6 points by elhenrico 271 days ago
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elhenrico 271 days ago
According to the study: The 27 selected as potential VOMs biomarkers for cancer provided 100% discrimination between the cancer and control groups. This new test can thus be routinely employed for cancer diagnoses that is non-invasive, fast, cheap, and highly accurate.
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corrino1 271 days ago
Um except they trained their machine learning algorithm on the same (small) data that they tested it on.

100% is no surprise.

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