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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Cancer Biomarkers Missing in Action

More medical vaporware.
Biomarkers for cancer -- often reported with great publicity -- routinely fail to be of clinical use, a Canadian researcher said.

Despite large investments and investigation by competent researchers, no new major cancer biomarkers have been approved for clinical use in the past quarter-century, according to Eleftherios Diamandis, MD, PhD, of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

In a commentary published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Diamandis said that's because a range of common analytical errors lead to what he called "false discovery," even when reports undergo detailed peer review and appear in high-profile journals.
Clearly the best "biomarker" is fitness.

Do yourself a favor and don't rely on the hype.

Rely on what works.

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