> Buit this is the point: The US appears to have better 5 year survival rates for prostate cancer because they massively over diagnos cancers thatwould otherwis

> Buit this is the point: The US appears to have better 5 year survival rates for prostate cancer because they massively over diagnos cancers thatwould otherwise not kill the patient. The methodology of that study is highly suspect, but even if we took it at face value - the magnitude of the effect that they propose is nowhere near enough to explain the difference in survival rates by overdiagnosis alone. It's a drop in the bucket.