[mmaunder]

This guy has never heard the term 'scanxiety'. Go ask what it means on a cancer forum. The real OG's are the VHL folks. Bet we have a few here on this thread. Respect.

[mgraczyk]

I have, it's the fault of how medicine is practiced to reduce cost. It's completely avoidable, you can just not tell people their scan results if they have no symptoms and the detection is less than 95% likely to be cancer. This is strictly better than the status quo because the only difference is some people who almost certainly have cancer learn that they have cancer and nothing else changes

[tptacek]

Again, you're assuming the only downside of a routine scan is anxiety. No, the real downside is that you'll trigger needless invasive procedures.

[kube-system]

> you can just not tell people their scan results if they have no symptoms

This article is about services like Prenuvo, where the entire point of the service is to get the results of elective scan not related to any symptoms.