Longevity Signals: Can We Detect Cancer Earlier?
🇺🇸 San Francisco,
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📅 LONGEVITY SIGNALS: CAN WE DETECT CANCER EARLIER?
Starts
Aug 27, 2026 1:00 AM
Ends
Aug 27, 2026 4:00 AM
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In person
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🍻 Social Meetups
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🇺🇸 San Francisco
Venue
House of AI
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House of AI, San Francisco, CA, United States
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You can now look for cancer in a vial of blood, years before a symptom or a scan. The catch is the signal. The disease may occur in only a small fraction of people your age in a gi...
You can now look for cancer in a vial of blood, years before a symptom or a scan.
The catch is the signal. The disease may occur in only a small fraction of people your age in a given year. The signal can be a few fragments of tumor DNA among billions of healthy ones.
Miss it and you have false reassurance. Call it when it isn't there and a healthy person can enter a cascade of imaging, biopsies, and anxiety.
That's the real problem, and a better sensitivity number doesn't fix it.
The assay is only half the question. The other half is who you're testing. Sensitivity and specificity describe…
Hosted by Kenneth Lou
The catch is the signal. The disease may occur in only a small fraction of people your age in a given year. The signal can be a few fragments of tumor DNA among billions of healthy ones.
Miss it and you have false reassurance. Call it when it isn't there and a healthy person can enter a cascade of imaging, biopsies, and anxiety.
That's the real problem, and a better sensitivity number doesn't fix it.
The assay is only half the question. The other half is who you're testing. Sensitivity and specificity describe…
Hosted by Kenneth Lou
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