Mammogram
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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Makary: 40% of eligible US women do not get mammograms
“40% of women who are candidates for a mammogram are not getting a mammogram in the United States today”
Makary: Breast ultrasound detects 90% to 95% of lesions mammograms catch
“It picks up 90 to 95% of the lesions that a mammogram would pick up.”
Brit Morin: Radar breast cancer detection technology will launch commercially in 2025
“This technology will be launching next year though, so soon you won't have to do a stupid mammogram.”
Lacy: Whole-body MRI screening will inevitably achieve widespread medical adoption
“And I think these statements that were made actually have also been made about pap smear between when it was invented and when it was adopted, mammograms. So this is a very, very natural Point in the journey from a potentially breakthrough screening technology…”
Mammography is the only test proven to increase survival rates
“And actually it's one of in fact, it's the only test which is proven to increase you know, increase the survival rates of women in terms of, you know, really large clinical trials and so on.”
Kaditz: Data scientists would never discard 70-percent accurate diagnostics like mammograms
“If mammograms have a predictive power information value in terms of defining or predicting whether or not somebody has breast cancer with the 70% accuracy, no data scientist in the world would throw out a variable that gave you That amount of information. They…”