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Cerumenogram: A new frontier in cancer diagnosis in humans

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Re: Cerumenogram: A new frontier in cancer diagnosis in humans

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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.

Re: Cerumenogram: A new frontier in cancer diagnosis in humans

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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.

Um except they trained their machine learning algorithm on the same (small) data that they tested it on.

100% is no surprise.