Seems to me like the article is mostly pointing out the stress and out of pocket costs that come with all these false positives. An ultrasound is not intrusive

Seems to me like the article is mostly pointing out the stress and out of pocket costs that come with all these false positives. An ultrasound is not intrusive at all, a biopsy however is. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say that a high amount of false positives are in fact an economic incentive for the medical community. And anyone having seen the hell metastatic breast cancer is, up close and personal, will insist that 1000 false positives is worth it to catch one case early on. Cancer awareness spam combined with obsessive screening and mild hostility towards women who do not frequently line up for ovarian/breast cancer testing (I don't see men being targeted nearly as much as women) is probably less about saving lives and more about making money imho. A biopsy is not at all harmless neither in the breast nor vagina. Do a quick internet search on prostate biopsy to see some gruesome numbers. All are pretty painful, prone to infection and a high chance of side effects. Some pretty severe, and they are not astronomically rare. The severe ones are in the 1% range. The fear of the brutality that is metastatic cancer is enough for few object to being routinely subjected and even coerced into this pretty dangerous and intrusive procedure. Those who do object are generally dismissed or even ridiculed. There is even a radiologist in the commentary here who sees no issue with the high rates of false positives as a potentially dangerous biopsy will quickly clear up the cancer scare... For vaginal scraping which is actually recommended as a screening measure for my age group 2-4 out of 100 women will have side effects. About 1 out of 100 will have severe side effects. Anecdotally. I have even had one doctor ( female if that matters ) tell me that after 50 it is probably best to have both my breasts and ovaries removed. As a preventative measure. This is the link I received from my doctor in Iceland about vaginal scraping and this is where I took my side effect statistics from. https://www.landspitali.is/library/Sameiginlegar-skrar/Gagnasafn/Sjuklingar-og-adstandendur/Sjuklingafraedsla---Upplysingarit/Kvennadeildir/utskaf_ur_legi_2021 https://www.landspitali.is/library/Sameiginlegar-skrar/Gagna... Medical doctors tend to terrify me. I really do avoid them unless I have something really concrete to show them that needs fixing and is not up for interpretation. EDIT: typos