Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
This makes me think of an article I read about prostate cancer detection. Apparently, it is possible to detect the possibility of prostate cancer many, many years before it is going to develop with a more sensitive, modern test. Once the detection is made both patient and doctor are not in a position to ignore it. At the same time treatment may well be premature or not recommended. But the doctor is left with a dilemma because it may appear they did not take action on something they knew.<p>That at least was the general topic of the article. The question it raises is interesting: is it sometimes too early to know.