Overdiagnosis
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Overdiagnosis
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Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime and thus presents no practical threat regardless of being pathologic. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease. Although screening saves lives in some cases, in others it may turn people into patients unnecessarily and may lead to treatments that do no good and perhaps do harm. Given the tremendous variability that is normal in biology, i
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Diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdiagnosis
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2024-03-31T09:07:29Z
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