Peter Attia· MD
so we actually had two false positives so these were two people where we kind of thought okay there's a problem here that you need to get addressed further by their further imaging and see what's going on and of those two false positives one was a male with asymmetric breast tissue so we actually just had one-sided breast tissue we didn't know what it was it's like so meaning you he came out of the MRI and you believed he had breast cancer which most listeners might think is odd but it turns out men can get breast cancer it's just virtually in exceedingly rare exactly that's basically the DWI showed a difference in density between one breast and the other yeah that's where like why is that most of time when men actually have kind of camasta or that breast tissue it's usually bilateral because it's hormonal but to have unilateral is somewhat hot and so as a result we sent this person to an ultrasound which is a commonly done and they too had no idea and so they actually also made the call to biopsy and it came back as normal breast glandular tissue in a male so let's talk just about the harm there so emotionally that man probably spent the series of know if it was in Canada a year if it was in the United States a week being stressed out about this or I just can't help but take digs at your health care system as you take digs at ours no I'm totally teasing so there's a legitimate emotional strain here which I don't think anybody who's known someone who's gone through that or who come through that themselves you just can't deny this and I've not lived it personally but I've seen it and it's it's very difficult and then secondly he had to get a procedure had to get a needle stuck into his breast tissue and look that's on the scale of procedures that's still pretty minor but it's not trivial so what was the second case and so the second case was actually a woman who basically had a seatbelt injury to her breast and actually wound up having unusual scar that has actually trapped fluid in it and so this person actually should have but never did actually have any mammograms because that would have led to the same conclusion though we don't know what this is so that was the second case where it's kind of like there's something unusual going on this breast we don't know what it is but we didn't actually have any proper history from her and so we sold was she she would have been late 50s a woman in her late 50s had never had a mammogram surprise it's out there even in Canada even in Canada yeah paedon of itself is very hard to believe in a country where it's free yeah yeah and then what would bring that patient in to get a whole body MRI