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ospraylast Friday at 8:38 PM1 replyview on HN

To clarify is the harm that many healthy people would stress while it was confirmed the detection was not cancer?


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rscholast Friday at 8:47 PM

No, the potential harm comes from follow-up tests. That's why screening strategies are designed by professionals. It's a pretty complex field, and all the people here fielding their opinions on how we should proceed about tests don't have a single idea about the implications of their theories.

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