Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti...
by Retric on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:04PM
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Untreated detectable cancers still kill relatively quickly, the only time they’re not a major concern is when people have other major medical issues.
For perspective even with all the advances in modern medicine in 2020 and thus a pandemic, cancer was still the #2 killer in the US after heart disease. It killed over 600,000 Americans in 2020 and that’s a 27% improvement over what it was doing as recently as 2001.
That said, there’s currently believed to be a long undetectable period where the body fights off most pre cancers. We’re approaching the ability to detect cancers below 0.5mm which we don’t have much clinical data on.
For perspective even with all the advances in modern medicine in 2020 and thus a pandemic, cancer was still the #2 killer in the US after heart disease. It killed over 600,000 Americans in 2020 and that’s a 27% improvement over what it was doing as recently as 2001.
That said, there’s currently believed to be a long undetectable period where the body fights off most pre cancers. We’re approaching the ability to detect cancers below 0.5mm which we don’t have much clinical data on.