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Alt-One-More t1_ixn4qzn wrote

What you're looking for is in the article linked:

"Approximately 1.6% of individuals in the United States will develop pancreatic cancer during their lifetime.1 With this relatively low prevalence, even an ideal screening test with 99% sensitivity and 99% specificity would yield 1000 false-positive results if applied to 100 000 patients. These false-positive results would require subsequent diagnostic evaluation and accrue additional complications, costs, and patient distress that would cause the risks of screening to outweigh any potential benefit."

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Alt-One-More t1_iu4wx00 wrote

I hear this a lot but I just never understand the reasoning given. There's no way it isnt possible to clean off the panels, it's more likely funding issues in the design as well as the official "lifespan" of these probes being months not decades.

Ie they'd rather save the weight on a cleaning mechanism in order to add another scientific instrument.

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