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threshold for positivity. The potential for multiple biomarker analysis to improve sensitivity
and specificity adds another layer of complexity. The revolution in ‗omic‘ technologies holds
much promise for biomarker discovery and should lead to new avenues for future research.
However challenges still remain for development of affordable chair side assays and given
that such biomarkers are likely to predict the probability of disease rather than certainty of
disease it is expected that clinical judgement and experience will still be relied upon, at least
in the medium term.
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