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It's not about superstition or fear, it's about resource allocation and common sense. Medical services are finite. Screening and continuous monitoring of every potential tumor in everyone would be crazy time consuming and incredibly wasteful. So let's not.

EDIT: Just to be clear, the idea of accurate early detection is of course a good one. But as of today it is just not viable.




You could use an AI to identify and monitor skin cancer from photos/videos.


I think that’s the point you missed in the entire conversation.

No one said it’s viable today. The entire point is to do the research so that someday it is viable.




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