Re:New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer
by skybrian on Monday June 10, 2019 @02:42PM
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Presumably none of us here are inventors of new medical technology. We are just amateurs talking about this casually on Hacker News. Saying it's "unacceptable" doesn't change anything from either the doctor or patient's point of view. Until the new tech comes along, we need to accept the limitations of what we have now.
The point is that there is an opportunity for the Steve Jobs of health care to come up with a way, a new innovative novel way, for classification of tumors to be improved without needing biopsy. Once we have that, then we can take tests to our heart's content. Right now, the attitude of "we shouldn't have people take tests and detect cancer early because our current method of determining if they are cancerous would make it too hard" isn't acceptable.