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Gleason 6 prostate lesions do not metastasise. A trial could show whether describing them without the word cancer leads more men to choose monitoring.
Survey experiments show terminology shifts preference; no randomised trial has tested it in real diagnoses. Propose a trial embedded in diagnostic clinics: pathology report and consultation script using 'cancer' versus 'indolent lesion of epithelial origin', with active surveillance uptake, anxiety, and two-year treatment as endpoints.
The honest state of the overdiagnosis question. Prostate cancer is common in the prostates of men who die of something else, screening finds a proportion of it, and how much of that is harm depends on what is done next. The fix is not a better estimate but fewer treatments for the cancers that do not need them.
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