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False-positive findings on screening mammography caused long-term psychosocial harm 3 years after a false-positive finding [1]. False positives also have a maj

• dontreact 5y ago
  This is all certainly true but it's important to look at the bigger picture. What is the overall impact of catching cancer earlier and saving lives? That is enormous as well. One way this is sometimes talked about in public health literature is by looking at the QALYs of an intervention. On the whole, breast cancer screening does seem to be an effective intervention https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31098856/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31098856/
• stewbrew 5y ago
  That's why it is so important medical doctors comminicate this right. Unfortunately, most of them have a false understanding of the probability of cancer based on a positive (other than B5) mammography. But this is a solveable problem. The "4B$" is a rather useless number. The same people would probably argue it's much cheaper to go to your local shaman instead of a medical doctor.