• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      If I’m wrong, then feel free to support your position with evidence or an argument showing that my statement was specious.

      I linked the, peer-reviewed, paper which contains the data that supports my statements on the topic.

      You’ve made two conclusory statements and immediately resorted to insulting comments when challenged.

      There is not a single aggressive pancreatic cancer where a false negative is more dangerous than a false positive.

      Percutaneous biopsy has a mortality rate of approximately 0.2% even relatively non-malignant pancreatic cancers (say Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm) have 10-year survival rates in adults of around 88% and that number is from cases which received surgical intervention and chemotherapy something that would not happen with a false negative.

      So even in the worst case, the false negative multiple times more deadly. A false positives’ most likely outcome is pancreatitis from the biopsy procedure.