If a person gets a Recaf test at 100% specificity and is positive for cancer you are worried about sending them to get treatment because the doctors and further testing might cause unnecessary proceedures?
Gold, you still fail to understand the results of waiting too long....
Gold stated, "Even if you used RECAF at 100% specificity, all of the subsequent testing will generate false fositives. You could end up with multiple false positives and still not locate the source of the RECAF positive. You could end up with a lot of unnecessary procedures being done.
Doctors would just avoid this test and beyond that, it will just never get FDA approval for screening. You are just wasting your time thinking it would even be a possibility."
Tell your story to the 3 children of Leah Siegel. Her kids should be old enough to understand you explaining to them that her mom was just another number and that that even if she had been diagnosed earlier that the false positives down the line would have forced her into unnecessary proceedures. If they don't understand I'm sure their widower dad will explain it to them.
ESPN Producer Who Wrote About Her Cancer DiesComments
AOL News (July 26) -- Leah Siegel, an Emmy-winning ESPN producer who won a whole new audience by blogging about her fight against breast cancer, died early this morning in hospice at the age of 43.
"The support over the last couple of years has been amazing," Siegel's husband, Eric Loehr, wrote today on her blog. "As Leah has enriched many people's lives, I believe that her life was equally enriched."
Mona Reeder, Dallas Morning News / MCT Emmy-winning ESPN producer Leah Siegel, here with her daughter in 2008, died Monday after a two-year battle against breast cancer. Siegel was diagnosed with widespread breast cancer -- lobular carcinoma -- in August 2008, less than a week after the birth of her third child. Her story became an inspiration to thousands after she was featured that fall in a front-page story in The Dallas Morning News, the paper reported.
Over the next two years, a reported 50,000 visitors flocked to her blog, where her writing reflected a tenacious optimism. "I truly believe I will be someone who is 'treated' for this disease until a cure is found," Siegel wrote. "If not for me, then for my three kids and my husband." Siegel was the daughter of two Washington Post writers and was one of ESPN's first female field producers. She was based in ESPN's Dallas bureau, where she produced segments on such things as the Dallas Cowboys and the Triple Crown, according to a tribute clip on the sports-news network.
Tributes from colleagues poured in today, including this Twitter post by Sports Illustrated writer Richard Deitsch: "Say a prayer today for Leah Siegel, a Dallas-based ESPN producer who has touched a lot of lives."
A memorial service is being planned for this week, as well as a special event in September to celebrate Siegel's life. Filed under: Nation, Sports, Health
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