Potential Harms from Being Screened Include (Select All That Apply)

question 4

Multiple Choice

Potential harms from being screened include (select all that apply) :

• A)Complications arising from follow‐up investigation of persons who screen positive
• B)Unnecessary treatment of persons with true‐positive test results who have inconsequential disease
• C)Costs and inconvenience incurred during investigations and treatment
• D)Anxiety generated by the investigations and treatment
• E)All of the above

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Definitions:

Ribosomes

Cellular structures responsible for protein synthesis.

microRNAs

Small non-coding RNA molecules that play a key role in regulating gene expression by binding to and inhibiting specific mRNA molecules.

mRNA

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.

RNA Polymerase

An enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA template during the process of transcription.