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I don't enough about heart disease treatment to comment on the degree it ruins your life. People already get further testing. People already get second opinion

I don't enough about heart disease treatment to comment on the degree it ruins your life. People already get further testing. People already get second opinions. In the time you are changing your lifestyle (a good option for helping treatment, I agree) and increasing monitoring you could already be progressing beyond treatability. You can argue about whether it's alright to tell sub-1.5 million people each year who don't have cancer that they have cancer (I don't think it is, but whatever). But again you can't disregard the non-insignificant number of people who get false positives. edit: Actually, not "whatever". You probably shouldn't tell sub-1.5 million people each year who don't have cancer that they have cancer.

burnished 5y ago
Hey, I can see this is emotional for you, but have you considered a world in which it is not telling this vast body of people "you definitely have cancer"? Something more like "we detected XXppm of [marker] which indicates we might need to do some more testing, can we talk about [risk factors]?". It just doesn't need to be as dire as what you are projecting.
UnFleshedOne 5y ago
> In the time you are changing your lifestyle (a good option for helping treatment, I agree) and increasing monitoring you could already be progressing beyond treatability. That's actually a very good argument for early testing. And needlessly scaring a some people into eating better and exercising more is about as bad as not screening them at all to avoid needless anxiety.