Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a...
by Retric on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:28PM
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I included that as a PS specifically because they don't change overall numbers much. Yes, it's true some cancers are becoming less common, but ~50% of the population get's cancer it's very common even if the numbers are shifting around slightly.
Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a...
by grzm on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:49AM
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Thanks for clarifying what you intended when you meant screening, which is differentiated from screening for cancer itself, which is how I read your upthread comment "[s]ome nipped a potentially fatal cancer in the bud".
Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have killed the person improves cancer survival statistics but nothing else.