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The targeted scans and tests that we already do offer surprising little benefit. Mammogram screening based on randomized-trial all-cause mortality, has not sho
by theparanoid 4mo ago
The targeted scans and tests that we already do offer surprising little benefit.
Mammogram screening based on randomized-trial all-cause mortality, has not shown a measurable reduction in total deaths.
Randomized colonoscopy screening has not shown a statistically significant all-cause mortality reduction.
- zarzavat 4mo ago> Randomized colonoscopy screening has not shown a statistically significant all-cause mortality reduction. My grandfather went to the doctor complaining of chest pains, they gave him a colonoscopy, and he died of a heart attack a week later! Clearly colonoscopy doesn't reduce mortality! There's no reason for almost any medical intervention to have a statistically significant effect on all cause mortality. That doesn't mean it doesn't have any effect on mortality of individuals.