• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    You selected a single pathology which supports your otherwise specious and false argument.

    Be better.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      If I’m wrong, then feel free to support your position with evidence or an argument showing that my statement was specious.

      I linked the, peer-reviewed, paper which contains the data that supports my statements on the topic.

      You’ve made two conclusory statements and immediately resorted to insulting comments when challenged.

      There is not a single aggressive pancreatic cancer where a false negative is more dangerous than a false positive.

      Percutaneous biopsy has a mortality rate of approximately 0.2% even relatively non-malignant pancreatic cancers (say Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm) have 10-year survival rates in adults of around 88% and that number is from cases which received surgical intervention and chemotherapy something that would not happen with a false negative.

      So even in the worst case, the false negative multiple times more deadly. A false positives’ most likely outcome is pancreatitis from the biopsy procedure.

    • unpossum@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      They selected the pathology that’s the topic of the post to support their on-topic argument. Be better, indeed.