Flutterby™! : Against early cancer detection

The Case Against Cancer Early Detection:

Early detection might remain a laudable goal if it caught some deadly cancers in time to make a difference and didn’t bother anyone. But it is bothering people. Tens of thousands of South Koreans have undergone surgical procedures for cancers that likely would never have threatened their lives, and the overdiagnosis/overtreatment problem exists to varying degrees for every cancer test.

Interesting that we don't have good diagnoses for distinguishing the "rabbits" from the "turtles", the fast growing cancers from the slow growing ones, and that as we're able to detect cancers earlier, we're discovering that many cancers don't persist, or are effectively removed by the natural processes of the body (JAMA Internal Medicine: The Natural History of Invasive Breast Cancers Detected by Screening Mammography)