breast cancer

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Gabriel Ott · across every show →

Everything said about breast cancer, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Otte: PSA tests and mammograms have false positive rates up to 75%
“In the field of cancer screening, cancer diagnostics, we're used to, like, really, really bad tests. So like PSA for prostate cancer detection, mammography for breast cancer detection, these things have false positive rates of anywhere from, ah, 50 to 75%.”
Gabriel Ott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:24 a16z Podcast | When Will Genomics Live Up to the Hype?
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Insight
Pande: Genomic diagnostics scale across cancer types via repeatable engineering
“Science is something that you can't schedule creativity or the ability to come through a breakthrough. So if you have understood the science of colorectal cancer, what you've learned about a stool test probably is not going to be very useful for a breast cance…”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:12 a16z Podcast | Taking the Pulse on Bio
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Ott: Mammography Screenings Have a 50% False Positive Rate
“Breast cancer, and specifically mammography as a screening method, has a false positive rate of 50%.”
Gabriel Ott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:30 a16z Podcast | Revisiting the Gene
May 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Topol: 88% of women will never get breast cancer
“88% of women will never have breast cancer.”
Dr. Eric Topol May 27, 2025 ▶ 18:54 7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers
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