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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by chickenpotpie on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:08PM (#26654988)
Top level comment said it was cheaper to TREAT cancer earlier. You’re both providing examples of diagnosing cancer earlier.
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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by DanBC on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:24AM (#26658632)
But there's a lot of cancer where it isn't cheaper to treat it earlier.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/screeni...

> Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of a cancer that wouldn’t have gone on to cause harm in a person’s lifetime, in other words, if the person hadn’t been tested (whether that’s screening or some other type of test), the person might never have known they had cancer, and would not have died from the disease.

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