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... or could do you harm, which is an important point.
by rscho 1y ago
... or could do you harm, which is an important point.
- ospray 1y agoTo clarify is the harm that many healthy people would stress while it was confirmed the detection was not cancer?
- rscho 1y agoNo, the potential harm comes from follow-up tests. That's why screening strategies are designed by professionals. It's a pretty complex field, and all the people here fielding their opinions on how we should proceed about tests don't have a single idea about the implications of their theories.
- mikert89 1y agothis is medical gate keeping ("only the holy priests can practice medicine"), please take this attitude elsewhere
- lm28469 1y ago[flagged]
- rscho 1y agoHonestly, you don't have access to the necessary data to make rational decisions. That's not gatekeeping, it's logic. I don't have access to it either, although I'm indeed a healthcare pro. Screening strategies are a hyperspecialized domain and only experts somewhat understand what they're doing. It's just like making theories about what the CERN guys should be doing while not having passed physics 101 with no access to experimental data. That's why I'm just saying: you're certainly allowed to question, but you certainly can't make up assertions either.
- _coveredInBees 1y agoWhat a ridiculous statement to make. No wonder the US is in the state it is in. Lets let the ignorant and uninformed decide on policy rather than the scientific community and experts. What could possibly go wrong?
- surgical_fire 1y ago"my ignorance is as valid as your knowledge" The internet is a powerful tool of communication, but turns out some people don't have anything worthwhile to communicate.
- terminalshort 1y agoHow could the screening do you harm? (other than financial)
- rscho 1y agoWhat are you gonna do if the screening test comes back positive?
- terminalshort 1y agoGet treated for the cancer you will now survive because you just caught early. The answer is so obvious I think I may have misunderstood what you mean here.
- rscho 1y agoThe fact that this answer is so obvious to you means you have to read up on diagnostic test performance and how screening works, because it's in fact not obvious at all. I mean that in the nicest way possible. Those companies offering expensive screening are not what they seem. Whether their offering is useful or whether they're just swindling you is a question that needs lots of time, money and sweat to answer.
- fragmede 1y agoWhat if it's just some lump that would not have developed into cancer? The surgery to get it removed isn't risk free.