Guess it's time to share this again. "Cancer screening has never been shown to save lives" - Oncologist Vinay Prasad. Detection is not the problem. It's what to do once you find it. Iatrogenic harms are real.
With better testing, we might be able to save some people, but we might also be subjecting a great deal more people to harms through unnecessary treatment and psychological trauma.
https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h6080
With better testing, we might be able to save some people, but we might also be subjecting a great deal more people to harms through unnecessary treatment and psychological trauma.