Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests can increase anxiety due to positive results that may not be immediately confirmed by radiographic assessment, and the medical community lacks established protocols for managing these situations. — Whalespan
Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests can increase anxiety due to positive results that may not be immediately confirmed by radiographic assessment, and the medical community lacks established protocols for managing these situations.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“but here's the concern that many people have which is um that basically we're at a state in the field where finding people who are blood positive blood test positive could lead to a large degree of anxiety in terms of than you do you know standard standard radiographic assessment you don't find the problem and that and that basically the medical community and because we're not talking about oncologists you know we're doing the tests right so um the medical community really hasn't had time to really kind of work out the Kinks of like how do we manage this situation”