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There is a spectrum between invasive treatment and not doing anything. You could have a scan 3 months later and if there is no progression the doctor schedule
by nick__m 2y ago
There is a spectrum between invasive treatment and not doing anything.
You could have a scan 3 months later and if there is no progression the doctor schedule a scan 6 months later and then 12 months... If there is a progression he schedule an appointmentwith an oncologist.
- vidarh 2y agoThe problem is that once the odds of benefiting from early detection is low enough, and the rate of a given condition is low enough, it takes very little for other things to dominate. E.g. how many of them end up leading to unnecessary biopsies, or scans that are themselves introducing a risk? For any condition there will be a threshold where too much screening becomes harmful because you're doing so many unnecessary tests that rare errors / accidents come to dominate the benefits. The question isn't if there's a threshold where more scans do more harm than good, but where it is. For some things, increased screening will be unambiguously good. For some it takes work to figure it out.