>>>Cost to fund a entire study with ever-so-slightly nonrandom treatment group ? Or cost to tune your own system to the cancer types found [perhaps varying with cancer type?]
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[sliced, but I don't think diced...]
>Custom creation of a "kick me" sign that sticks mostly to ugly stuff sticking out of your cancer cells. I don't know all the details.
>But automation will come, quality will rise sharply and the cost will plummet.

Guess I get the drift. Wonder who will make such a process available at 6 to lower 7 figures - would be an interesting numbers game to see at which point medical insurance would not be bancrupted by it...

>Buffett had a non-aggressive tumor that won't have the wild abnormalities they need to look for to avoid scorched earth.
>FWIW, some clinicians would say Buffett didn't need treatment unless he plans to live to 100 and even then there will be better treatments around the corner.

The published state of diagnosis, treatment and imagined benefits from relatively bottomless pockets don't add up for me: I cannot imagine radiation treatment that much better/less risky for a billionaire to turn to at age 81 (assuming such a billionaire had PSA checked for years and the things found in biopsy were typical slow growth type), so I suspected some GiGo effect for my poor,limited POV.