Transcript HW 8

HW1
Q1: Each one of you is provided with $ 100 million dollars to make an investment in any
one of the following areas:
1.
Launch of an educational and public health program to educate people regarding
cancer (you may chose any cancer as your model example e.g. cervical, ovarian,
lung, colon etc) and participation in a current screening program or trial
2.
Development of a biomarker based test for non-invasive early cancer detection,
which will improve cancer detection (Biomarker will have sp> 95%; and se> 98%)
3.
Development of a novel pharmaceutical compound to treat a cancer- The new
treatment will reduce side effects, improve specificity of targeting and will improve
5 year survival of patients by 30%
In your answers you are expected to:
Chose one of options, explain reasons for choosing your option and how it is better than
the other two options. Please use numbers if applicable to answer your question?
Q2: Please prepare one page review of the following article. Please see the attached
review. In the article the authors are focused on screening of pre-metastatic
disease. In your review of this article, discuss the desired technology innovation to
improve these current technologies for risk detection and early stage diagnosis.