The comic · Genetics of Disease (GenD)

Week 15 of 22

NOVEMBER 6 TO 9

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 69: Cancer screening debate.

Screening finds cancers early. It also finds cancers that would never have caused harm, and those people get treated anyway.

ME

I had assumed finding more was strictly better. Overdiagnosis was not a thing I knew about.

Panel 69Cancer screening debate · 2026-11-06
Drawing, panel 70: Microscopy image baseline.

Establishing what normal tissue looks like before looking at anything abnormal. You cannot recognize disordered until you know ordered.

Panel 70Microscopy image baseline · 2026-11-09
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