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[+] -22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)
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    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.

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