Tag: cancer screening

• What the Walrus said.

  The media are at it again, beating the data-drums for scraps of hope. It’s not that we don’t all long for reassurance and want to believe in the steady march of Science; it’s more that we can’t shake the suspicion that if we wish hard enough, stuff happens. For some reason I am reminded of…

  gozzter

  January 6, 2016

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  BBC article, Ca125, cancer screening, clomid, clomiphene, Lancet, Lewis Carroll, ovarian cancer and clomid, screening for ovarian cancer, Stephen Leacock, surrogate pregnancy, The Walrus and the Carpenter, women’s health

• Breast and Ovarian Cancer Screening

  I am sometimes troubled by the concept of risk. I mean how can we possibly decide whether or not a risk is acceptable? No matter the statistics, if the issue under consideration doesn’t happen, then the risk assumed was acceptable. So far, so good. But of course the converse is also true: no matter how low the risk,…

  gozzter

  November 12, 2014

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  BRCA gene, BRCA1, BRCA2, breast cancer, cancer, cancer screening, Founder effects, guessing, hereditary breast cancer, lottery, male breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prediction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, risk, Risk of medicai, Statistics, triple negative breast cancer