Comments on: The Backlash Against Screening & Prevention http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/2008/07/the-backlash-against-screening-prevention/ a blog about predictive medicine and the future of healthcare Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mirco http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/2008/07/the-backlash-against-screening-prevention/comment-page-1/#comment-4482 Mirco Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:22:53 +0000 http://epidemix.org/blog/?p=261#comment-4482 The example is wrong. It didn't say that multiple mammography is useful for the patients. It only say that they know their disease before. A cancer usually grow for many years before becoming detectable without mammography. So it is not strange that early tester will be alive more after detecting the cancer. They probably would be alive even they didn't nothing about it. People receiving multiple mammography live longer lives than people receiving less screening? This is the question that matter. The example is wrong.
It didn’t say that multiple mammography is useful for the patients.
It only say that they know their disease before.
A cancer usually grow for many years before becoming detectable without mammography.
So it is not strange that early tester will be alive more after detecting the cancer. They probably would be alive even they didn’t nothing about it.

People receiving multiple mammography live longer lives than people receiving less screening? This is the question that matter.

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