Originally Posted by
NT001
It would be great if some of those expressing opinions as to whether both "detect" and "triage" are really needed actually knew what triage meant, and understood the difference. I can't imagine that the people at the AUA and Kaiser are hanging on the the advice from this thread as to whether they should use both, as intended, or should take our advice and put their patients' lives at risk by just using one. Of course if we take PEB for a bunch of idiots, as some obviously do, then we'll just keep suggesting that potential users ignore the difference.
Triage accepts that you do have symptoms of bladder cancer, as indicated by detect, which precedes it, and then tells you whether or not you have to be invasively treated straight away or can be left for further observation. Pretty simple really. And it saves a lot of money and unnecessary suffering in a huge number of cases. Great for the patients, the urologists, and the insurance companies. Same with many other cancers. Watch and wait, and take action when it's deemed necessary. Often people with cancers can live with them for years untreated, and eventually die of something else.