According to Goda, the cutting edge device now harbors an unprecedented false-positive rate of one cell in a million.
For anyone who has forgotten statistics like me and was thrown off by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Fals...
The false positive rate is the proportion of absent events that yield positive test outcomes, i.e., the conditional probability of a positive test result given an absent event.
1 of 1M - [false-positive cell] to [cells tested]
So, given my poor stats background and guessing what that means...
1B - cells tested
1k - false-positive cells
1 - pre-cancerous cell
-->
20T - ALL cells tested
20M - false-postive cells
20k - pre-cancerous cells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cell#Human_erythrocyt...
In theory early detection is good, but I'm not sure what treatment is available if cells are found this early ad the stress for the other 1,000 people is going to be significant.