Peter Attia· MD
so um there's lots of things that are sensitive meaning that there are proteins that accumulate um biochemistries metabolites that go up in cancer um but the problem is they go up in a lot of benign conditions right so you know a big benign prostate spews out a lot of PSA um uh and pretty much every other protein or metabolite does that and so what you know the biomarkers to date were all very sensitive but all had false positive rates of you know say five or 10%