All I see here is:
incidentaloma, incidentaloma, incidentaloma…
What’s an incidentaloma?
A ditzle / wart / spot that may or may not be concerning, but ends up triggering a path of follow up scans ($), invasive/procedural diagnostics like biopsies and surgeries ($$$$$), complications of those invasive diagnostics (bleeding, infection, death), and anxiety and cost.
Add on the concept of “pre-test probability”, and elective full body scans can only yield higher false positive rates.
Based on existing studies in radiology literature for non-elective scans (aka, they were looking for some pathology based on risk factors or symptoms of the patients), here’s some stats:
🏥~40% of imaging results in incidental findings (incidentalomas).
🏥Of those, only 1.1% were actually clinically significant and/or cancer.
The rest is just $$$, complications, and anxiety…
Knowledge is power, but that power can be dangerous…
PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES
P E A C H E S P E A C H E S P E A C H E S
P E A C H E S P E A C H E S 🍑
(Solo por ver el contexto de la canción quiero ver la película jajaja)