> The false positive rate is 3%; if all 330+ million Americans tested themselves each year, that’s millions of benign cases that will need to be followed up on which inflate costs and create backlogs.
True. I also don't have the cost-benefit. I'm in sunny australia and get skin checks every 2 years, it's a slight PITA tbh, requires a couple of hours off work to commute to the doctor and get it done (the check itself is unobtrusive and usually takes only 10 min, it's getting there and waiting that's time-consuming).
Suppose a check via app takes 5 minutes (as opposed to 2 hours), and could alert you to true-positives sooner (possibly 1 year 11 months sooner), that could have a very significant benefit since skin cancers can go from harmless to harmful quickly.
The other thing we're missing is the false-positive rate for the human check; I suspect it's non-zero; possibly not trivial either.
True. I also don't have the cost-benefit. I'm in sunny australia and get skin checks every 2 years, it's a slight PITA tbh, requires a couple of hours off work to commute to the doctor and get it done (the check itself is unobtrusive and usually takes only 10 min, it's getting there and waiting that's time-consuming).
Suppose a check via app takes 5 minutes (as opposed to 2 hours), and could alert you to true-positives sooner (possibly 1 year 11 months sooner), that could have a very significant benefit since skin cancers can go from harmless to harmful quickly.
The other thing we're missing is the false-positive rate for the human check; I suspect it's non-zero; possibly not trivial either.