| George Conklin 2004-10-04, 2:21 am |
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"Leonard Evens" <len@math.northwestern.edu> wrote in message
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> George Conklin wrote:
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> You have to distinguish the press release from Stanford and the media
> reports about it from the article which, I believe, appeared the the
> Journal of Urology. It is unclear to me just what appeared in the
> journal article and what appeared in the press release/media reports.
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> How would you show definitively that if we looked for prostate cancer in
> men in their 20s using current techniques, or some variation of them,
> that you would find a significant amount of it.
Autopsy results show that according to the article.
To get results
> comparable to the autopsy study results you would have to remove a
> sizable number of prostates from men with no evidence of disease and
> examine them very carefully.
Assumption on yur part.
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