On 2013 Nov 10, Robert Tibshirani commented:

This paper studies serum mesothelin as a biomarker for pancreatic and biliary cancers. The teen prodigy Jack Andraka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka developed a cheap test for mesothelin that won him the Intel Science prize. From the abstract, this paper concludes that mesothelin is not useful for detecting pancreatic and biliary cancers.

Unfortunately I have not yet read this paper- it is not open access and costs $42. This is not right! The authors work at the NCI, clearly supported by our taxes. I hope that others knowledgeable in this area will comment on this work.

On 2013 Nov 10, Robert Tibshirani commented:

This paper studies serum mesothelin as a biomarker for pancreatic and biliary cancers. The teen prodigy Jack Andraka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka developed a cheap test for mesothelin that won him the Intel Science prize. From the abstract, this paper concludes that mesothelin is not useful for detecting pancreatic and biliary cancers.

Unfortunately I have not yet read this paper- it is not open access and costs $42. This is not right! The authors work at the NCI, clearly supported by our taxes. I hope that others knowledgeable in this area will comment on this work.