alt Hacker NewsYeah cancer is the big killer nowadays. Survival rates for stage 4 cancer still poor after many decades of research. Worse yet, in many instances there are no obvious risk factors, such as people in their 30s or 40s who get colon cancer and were not eligible for screening .
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No, heart disease still #1 (it's closer, like 680K vs 600K deaths)
> not eligible for screening
Is this a thing? I thought I could walk into my PCP's office and schedule a screening any time, provided I may need to pay more out of pocket or something.
that’s to be expected, after we do the adequate screening for one older population and mitigate many of the advanced versions of that, then the previously edge case becomes more prevalent amongst all cases
there is still a limited resource for the screening at this point, so that’s a friction to expanding screening
Would screening improve the outcomes or just create more patients getting unnecessary treatment?