Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detection or Unnecessary?

Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by robbiep on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:46PM (#37268459)

You are misunderstanding how ‘incidentalomas’ are reviewed and managed. You don’t know it’s a false positive until you’ve done the invasive diagnostic tests subsequently (with non-zero risk), at which point you can classify it as a false positive

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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by Gibbon1 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @04:45AM (#37270874)

An issue that gets brushed over is you have various possible results to an invasive diagnostic test.

1. Bad 2. Indeterminate 3. Benign 4. Nondiagnostic

One and two are simple enough. Three and four are really problematic. And they are more common that people assume. Worse people confuse the two.

Indeterminate says they have a sample that is sufficient but can't be assigned to Bad or Benign. What do you do then? If you treat some large percentage will be treated for nothing. If you don't some percentage will see progression.

Nondiagnostic says there are issues with the sample that make a determination impossible at all. What do you do then? Repeat the biopsy? What if you get another Nondiagnostic? Forget about it?

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