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Autopsy studies decades ago found hidden prostate, thyroid and breast cancers in people who died of other causes, but they pre-date modern pathology. Repeating them with whole-body imaging and standardised histology would measure the reservoir of harmless cancer that every overdiagnosis estimate depends on.
Overdiagnosis estimates depend on knowing the prevalence of indolent disease, yet the data is decades old and pre-dates modern pathology. Propose systematic autopsy series with whole-body imaging and standardised histology across ages and populations, quantifying the reservoir for prostate, thyroid, breast, kidney, lung and pancreas.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms, Thyroid cancer.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms, Thyroid cancer, Prostate cancer.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms, Thyroid cancer.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms.
Shares Overdiagnosis in cancer, Overdiagnosis and false alarms.