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You may joke, but this is a genuine issue in certain screening tests. e.g. most cancerous cells found in PSA prostate screening are so slow growing that they never cause any symptoms during a person's lifetime, so the treatment is almost always worse than the disease. It's similar for some sorts of thyroid and breast cancer tests. This is why a lot of countries are heavily reducing these sort of tests


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