Switzerland recently stopped doing mammograms because they are useless and the high radiation is probably damaging. It has at least a 10% false positive rate, so if someone has 10 of these they will have at least 1 crisis in which they are told they may have cancer, when they actually have nothing. They will then be subjected to surgery …
Switzerland recently stopped doing mammograms because they are useless and the high radiation is probably damaging. It has at least a 10% false positive rate, so if someone has 10 of these they will have at least 1 crisis in which they are told they may have cancer, when they actually have nothing. They will then be subjected to surgery and other interventions/ treatment. Everything in present day medicine has between a 30-100% risk of morbidity and mortality. Medicine is stuck at the medieval level because of the money hogs and general incompetence.
Switzerland recently stopped doing mammograms because they are useless and the high radiation is probably damaging. It has at least a 10% false positive rate, so if someone has 10 of these they will have at least 1 crisis in which they are told they may have cancer, when they actually have nothing. They will then be subjected to surgery and other interventions/ treatment. Everything in present day medicine has between a 30-100% risk of morbidity and mortality. Medicine is stuck at the medieval level because of the money hogs and general incompetence.