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Harmless cancers are being overdiagnosed & overtreated in America. "In our exuberance to find these cancers, we have basically turned a lot of healthy people who are not destined to die from cancers into patients,” says Dr. Ade Adamson, a cancer screening expert. Check out my new piece👇
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Fortune · The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers are being overdiagnosed in AmericaBy Carolyn Barber

Do you really have cancer?

Overdiagnosis in medicine is well-documented. "For many cancers, the term "cancer" simply doesn’t match how the disease behaves."

For ex, low risk prostate CA & DCIS breast CA comprise ~1/4 of all US prostate/breast cancer diagnoses. “These pts are routinely treated with surgery or radiation,” even though pts have no symptoms at presentation--should they be?

By @DrLauraEsserman @UCSF & @uroegg @UChicagoMed
tinyurl.com/yc6nkppp
#cancer #overdiagnosis

The New York Times · Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called CancerBy Laura Esserman