But: that surgery is not without risk, and if there are no symptoms there is a fair chance that there never will be symptoms. Depending on your age and your genetic make-up you might be more or less at risk. There is such a thing as spontaneous remission and so on.
So no, I'm not 'basically giving up', and no you won't die anyway (well, unless you take that in the most abstract way), in particular likely not from cancer.
Even for those cancers where we do screen (such as for instance breast cancer) it is not a given that the increased frequency of detection has led to better patient outcomes.
But once you know someone's genetic disposition increased frequency of testing might be advantageous.
So no, I'm not 'basically giving up', and no you won't die anyway (well, unless you take that in the most abstract way), in particular likely not from cancer.
Even for those cancers where we do screen (such as for instance breast cancer) it is not a given that the increased frequency of detection has led to better patient outcomes.
But once you know someone's genetic disposition increased frequency of testing might be advantageous.