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© 2016 AFPThyroid cancer 'epidemic' down to overdiagnosis: study
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Outsider
"If ye seek it, ye shall find it" If the patient`s are being railroaded into unnecessary procedures, that is a problem for the medical community, not the screening process per se. It is the interpretation of, and decision making based on, the results that needs to more closely scrutinized. Hopefully this will not lead to a decrease in screening and thus the rise of more untreatable or at the best more radical treatment of thyroid cancers because of this situation.
coskuri
It's a huge problem for the patient. For the medical business, it's a great opportunity to sell easy operations and lifelong prescriptions of high profit medication.
bullfighter
Indeed, especially for alleged psychiatric and psychological issues "Depression" in Japan was largely created as the result of a marketing effort by an American drug company.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/10/22/general/mike-mills-looks-at-depression-in-japan/
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36824927