Peter Attia· MD
I want to be clear that cancer screening is a very personal decision and it comes with risks and the biggest risk of course is a false positive which then leads to subsequent screening emotional distress potential harm
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I want to be clear that cancer screening is a very personal decision and it comes with risks and the biggest risk of course is a false positive which then leads to subsequent screening emotional distress potential harm
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as a physician I think you have to be able to talk to your patients about this explicitly prior to any testing you know I think patients uh need to understand that hey there's a you know a chance that if I get a positive test here it's not a real positive and I have to have kind of the emotional Constitution to go through with that and I have to be willing to then engage in follow-up testing
and I think honestly when you present the data this way to patients they really understand it and they really can make great informed decisions for themselves and by the way for some of those patients it means thank you but no thank you like I just don't want to go through with this and that's that's okay too