Tag Archive for: screening tests

Who Decides?

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After the past two messages, I hope you’ve taken the time to think about screening tests. There are many ways to respond, from outrage to “Who cares what some obscure researchers say?” To me, it’s complicated but it always comes back to statistics.

In Tuesday’s message, the opinion voiced the concern that going against the evidence presented by the USTFPS by a political body was opening the door to more intervention based on emotion rather than fact. The facts were that more women would be faced with the stress to their minds and their bodies if they . . .

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Too Old to Test

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The next comment on excessive testing concerns unnecessary prostate and breast cancer screening in people who are 65 and older. Based on the current U.S. census, that would be about 40 million Americans.

Researchers used data from the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. This telephone survey is a minimum 190 questions and can be up to 410 questions. As the title suggests, it asks about all aspects of health from diet, exercise, previous conditions and diseases, and current conditions and diseases. The researchers were interested in the number of people 65 and older who responded to . . .

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