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Some low-grade prostate cancers carry higher risks than biopsy suggests (medicalxpress.com)
2 points by bikenaga 6 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment




> Biopsies test only small areas of the prostate, so they can miss more advanced or aggressive cancer cells, providing an incomplete picture.

Not an MD - but wasn't this well known decades ago? If you take a modest number of small samples from a (relatively) large, heterogeneous organ - it's old-fashioned statistics as to how representative your sample set will (or won't) be.




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