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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:38AM (#27632141)
> If you gave a mammogram to every 20 year old woman, you would end up doing a large number of unnecessary biopsies and you’d find almost no real cancer

If you gave a mammogram to every 20-year old, you wouldn't do a biopsy when you got a positive. You'd increase monitoring and maybe suggest lifestyle changes. The same way we don't immediately catherize everyone who comes back with high cholesterol.

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vidarh on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:59PM (#27635523)
If you gave a mammogram to every 20-year old, you'd cause a significant increase in cancers:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4878445/

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