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If someone gets screened for lung cancer and finds a tumor, but then dies of a heart attack instead of cancer, doctors might say the tumor was 'overdiagnosed'—even if it was deadly. This doesn’t make sense to many doctors because the cancer could’ve killed them if they hadn’t died of something else first.
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Overdiagnosis in lung cancer screening
Narrative Review
2021 FebThe study says using death cause to decide if a cancer was 'overdiagnosed' doesn’t make sense—like calling a dangerous cancer harmless just because the person died of a heart attack. It agrees with the claim that we should judge cancers by how aggressive they are, not by how people die.
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