The evidence on cancer screening is very bad. It detects lots of “cancer” massively improving “cancer survival rates”, but doesn’t improve overall survival because the biggest effect is tons of unnecessary treatment.

Hold me closer, tiny cancer

Cancer screening finds more cancer but does not increase lifespans. Cancer hides in lots of bodies without affecting their quality of life/longevity. Screening and treatment makes them sick. Did they just operate on and radiate a healthy person? Probably hit the jackpot too

And eventually AI machines are going to be the ones removing those cancers. Whether it be robot surgeons or nanobots. AI scares me in a multitude of ways, but the ways it could help society are virtually infinite. I don't believe humans can advance to the next stage without it.

AI is going to end up being one of those rare technologies that actually lives up to the hype. Granted, it will end up taking almost 100 years.

It's not really. You're being presented with an optimistic take on a process that is over hyped by it's PI. A corollary would be battery technology articles...

Early detection is not necessarily better ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK66…

Curious about the false positive and false negatives of MIA. Ostensibly, a coin flip would catch half the cancers doctors missed.

Hold me closer tiny cancer

More of this, less stealing from writers!