Comment by kaikai
16 hours ago
Skin cancer is easily treated with excisions if it’s caught early. Better to have ten small false positives than a single miss.
16 hours ago
Skin cancer is easily treated with excisions if it’s caught early. Better to have ten small false positives than a single miss.
Even if addressing each false positive would carrying low but real risk of death or complications?
Is your "low but real" risk comparable to the risk of driving a motorcycle, of riding in a car, or of using the bathroom?
Reasonable treatments for small, non-aggressive skin cancers (or suspected cancers) are extremely low risk. And reasonable practitioners will often suggest that you merely keep an eye on an abnormal spot - because it doesn't look worth the bother of any sort of treatment for now.