There are some "cancers" which will likely never cause their host any problems
tests at Autopsy show that most males over about age 50 have what would show up in screening as prostate "cancer", a far far lower percentage would ever develop problems with it.
Simillarly, there are conditions like calcification of milk ducts, which are assumed to be pre "cancerous", but no one actually knows, because for the past 40 or 50 years, any woman found with such changes got her tits chopped off.
Why scare the hell out of people and their families with the bogey man of a disease that in its aggressive forms can result in a painul and degrading death, and subject them to therapies almost as bad as the worst forms of the disease, for something that is unlikely to even trouble them?
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There are some "cancers" which will likely never cause their host any problems
tests at Autopsy show that most males over about age 50 have what would show up in screening as prostate "cancer", a far far lower percentage would ever develop problems with it.
Simillarly, there are conditions like calcification of milk ducts, which are assumed to be pre "cancerous", but no one actually knows, because for the past 40 or 50 years, any woman found with such changes got her tits chopped off.
Why scare the hell out of people and their families with the bogey man of a disease that in its aggressive forms can result in a painul and degrading death, and subject them to therapies almost as bad as the worst forms of the disease, for something that is unlikely to even trouble them?
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