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Friday, 10/03/2008 9:27:01 AM

Friday, October 03, 2008 9:27:01 AM

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I wonder what accuracy results would come from an initial combination of the two (saliva and serum).

Dr. Moro stated: "These results are extremely significant because it is much easier and less expensive to screen for cancer using saliva samples than serum samples. We believe we can trim the assay to work even better, but even at these levels we can lower the threshold above which we say a patient is positive for cancer, thus increasing the sensitivity to close to 100%. Then a serum test can be run on the saliva positive cases to eliminate many if not most of the potential false positives.

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