Balding Means Prostate Cancer

Like all science papers you get from the conclusion "Interestingly, the new study did not find a link between severe balding and an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer" while I do eye stuff I do read medical papers a lot as I collaborate on many in my area.

 

Hi Homer, it may do, the conclusive link is not proven and we discuss various potential differences in eye images and scans weekly and can we find that elusive trigger/biomarker to getting a disease diagnosis correctly ID'd... not easy at all, this week talking again with some guests from India and the LSHTM on Malarial Retinopathy and have a few papers on this http://www.nature.com/articles/srep10425 < one as e.g but also chatting in my main area of ARMD on http://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2535999 did get put on the spot this Friday with leading a discussion on the very paper on this topic as I was at a meeting in which Guiseppe gave the talk.

So looking for that single cause to a medical issue is hard, it can be random as hell so not to dismiss anything, but also not all news stories on medical research are conclusive. I tend to look or think of the weirdass ideas as never know, trying hard to look into (ideas me getting it working = smarter folk like Sheldon Cooper) how can AI, Cloud, Cluster Nets, biomarkers, work on automating diagnosis of eye disease, earlier linked paper on vessel leakage was one.

 

Hi Homer and coming back in HCG and a predictor then http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/S...s/TipsandArticlesonDeviceSafety/ucm109390.htm like many tests they can have false positives so not a 100% test for prostate cancer or other conditions. I see this in the work we do that it can be subjective to what we see in diagnostic imaging, I may see a condition type different to someone else, so we tend to use multi-modal imaging to build up a better picture of what's going on, OCT (Optical Coherent Tomography) is a fantastic tool, but has limits as well, can if used to finalise the appearance of say Wet ARMD, can fool the clinician as the eye condition maybe something else and need different treatment.

 

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