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Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies by moralestapia on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:23PM (#47557461)
"maximum diagnostics"

Love this! This is the way! And he proved it correct.

I remember one time I mentioned this in a casual conversation only to get back very low IQ responses with some fatuous arguments that the tests caused the disease or something.

There was this one guy Tomas something (can't remember the last name, a weird one), doesn't matter, what I do remember is how he was desperately trying to explain how more tests led to more diagnoses and that was ... somehow bad? Lmao.

Something I've observed, I've lived in Canada/US and Latin America, in the former you have to wait months for a CT scan, in the latter you can get it the same day you need it. If the "third-world" can do it, there's no excuse.

Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies by universa1 on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:45PM (#47557624)
I am fully on your side, but tests are not 100%: False positives and false negatives.

The way out is obviously better tests and not less tests :-)

Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies by jwardbond on Saturday March 28, 2026 @06:01PM (#47558509)
Could Tomas something have been referring to some of the risks mentioned here [1]? Particularly the overdiagnosis bullet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_screening#Risks