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Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a... by tinokid on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:36AM (#16502995)
Treating infectious disease than can cause cancer (H. pylori, HPV) has nothing to do with cancer treatment.

Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have killed the person improves cancer survival statistics but nothing else.

Re:Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically a... by Retric on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:28PM (#16503642)
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 (#16503165)
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".