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so were those false positives or positives in elderly where the progress was slow enough to not matter?

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govFalse positive cervical HPV screening test resultsIn cervical cancer screening, HPV testing is best at reassuring women when they are negative, but proper management of HPV positives is still evolving. Most HPV infections are benign, and over-reactin...

It's a common thing across the board...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science

If you ignore false positives they could cripple the medical system, think of the NHS especially, or force people into needless testing, e.g. doi.org/10.1016/j.pv...

i know it is. sorry if my question was imprecise, its morning & i have to travel today x_x has korea had more false positives or is this true positives that nonetheless wont improve life quality bc the cancer grows slow and the patient is old, or bc of another terminal dx. or other reasons ?

oh, sorry, are you asking because you don't want to read the paper or because you don't have access or something else?

OK, I read the whole thing, and I cannot answer your question as I am not an expert on thyroid and it also seems not the right question. Relevant extract:

15/10/26, 7:25 am0 reposts2 likes

also

Martyn Plummer@martynplummer.bsky.social

Ten years ago, when I was working at #IARCWHO, we estimated the extent of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis by modelling the distortion of the age-incidence profile over the decades. South Korea was by far the worst case. doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...

thank you for taking that time

so that did answer my question, not false positives for tumours, but as theyre non malignant they need the occasional monitoring. its be severely problematic when their models cant differentiate between malignant and non malignant tumors. like.. pre screening sure but a human has to judge as well