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For a bunch of stuff that's simply not true. Over-testing leads to over-diagnosis which leads to over-treatment. People get treatment that causes them harm and
by DanBC 6y ago
For a bunch of stuff that's simply not true.
Over-testing leads to over-diagnosis which leads to over-treatment. People get treatment that causes them harm and which cannot benefit them because they don't have cancer.
- cjrp 6y agoI don't think the idea is that someone uses the home test and then goes straight to the hospital for chemo. It's a new test at the beginning of the diagnosis-pipeline, rather than a replacement for the existing tests.
- DanBC 6y agoSure, but there are people in this thread who think that testing can never be harmful and can never put people on a pathway to harm. PSA testing is similar: you don't go direct to treatment after PSA testing, yet we know that PSA screening does cause over-treatment.
- Jugurtha 6y ago>Sure, but there are people in this thread who think that testing can never be harmful and can never put people on a pathway to harm. Can you be more specific as to which comment claims that? Given that you're replying to a comment I've made which did not make those claims.