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Do those studies account for the (emotional and monetary) cost of false positives from those early detection?
by throw_nbvc1234 4y ago
Do those studies account for the (emotional and monetary) cost of false positives from those early detection?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoI don't think monetary cost was accounted for, and I assume by emotional cost you don't mean the hits to someone's health due to emotions (which are accounted for). It's really hard to get diagnosed with a cancer, but early detection is very helpful for improving outcomes. In the US (in particular), there is a lot more monetary cost to someone's late-stage cancer treatment, and then eventual death, than there is to early-stage cancer treatment, so I would assume that early screening tests are monetarily net beneficial based on the reduction in cancer deaths.