UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON As the most serious type of skin cancer, a melanoma diagnosis carries emotional, financial and medical consequences. That’s why recent studies finding that there is an overdiagnosis of melanoma are a significant cause for concern. “Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will not harm a person in their lifetime. If melanoma...
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Women know little about overdiagnosis of breast cancer
by University of Oslo When researcher Kaitlyn Tsuruda asked women whether they had heard of overdiagnosis, half said yes. But only a few in fact ticked the right answers to the in-depth follow-up questions. Credit: Cecilie Bakken Høstmark, UiO Women know less about the so-called overdiagnosis of breast cancer compared to other aspects of mammogram...