Yes. This is called "watchful waiting" and is often the course taken with prostate cancer. (View Post)

False positives and false negatives both lead to negative outcomes. A false positive doesn't have to lead to intensive treatment, it might lead just to more tests, but that's still a cost to the NHS … (View Post)

This is the 2021 review on prostate cancer screening: https://view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/document/3d7978b6-20d7-4331-b9fa-36a2cc7c1795/download There's a lay summary at the … (View Post)

Well, maybe and maybe not. We don't know whether all that information actually can pick up diseases with sufficient precision. (View Post)

Without the public sector, none of that private sector activity would happen either, of course. (View Post)