Sentences with phrase «harm of false positive»

Less obvious is the potential harm of false positive results and subsequent costly or invasive procedures.

In addition to the huge hit to your wallet, there's also the potential harm of false positives, and just because a test has traditionally been done for a condition doesn't mean it's the best way to treat it.

Not exact matches

Specifically, the task force says the «harms and costs of false - positive results, over diagnosis and overtreatment» outweigh any «significant reductions in the relative risk of death from breast cancer.»

They suggest most women in their 40s should not have routine mammograms because the tests may cause more harm than good because of false positive results (follow - up testing proves negative for cancer).

Dr. Catalona, who was the first physician in the U.S. to run the phi test, added, «However, the problem is that higher levels of PSA can also be caused by a benign enlargement or inflammation of the prostate, leading to many false ‐ positives for cancer and ultimately unnecessarily invasive biopsies and an increased potential for patient harm.»

Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

In an editorial also published in the July 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Sawaya and Dr. Vanessa Jacoby of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco write, «The pelvic examination has held a prominent place in women's health for many decades and has come to be more of a ritual than an evidence - based practice... With the current state of evidence, clinicians who continue to offer the examination should at least be cognizant about the uncertainty of its benefits and its potential to cause harm through false - positive testing and the cascade of events it prompts.»

«Our finding of time - limited harm after false - positive screening mammograms is relevant for clinicians who counsel women on mammographic screening and for screening guideline development groups,» the researchers note.

Discussion: «Our finding of time - limited harm after false - positive screening mammograms is relevant for clinicians who counsel women on mammographic screening and for screening guideline development groups.»

But further studies are needed to determine whether false - positives harm quality of life or increase anxiety about cancer.

I know that sounds bonkers crazy like a double negative... It's called avoiding the false positive of making an untrue claim, or avoidance of being the boy who called wolf when there really wasn't one... which could harm scientists» reputations & science in general.