A pathologist friend told me “there’s a good chance you already have the cancer that might eventually kill you.” The danger of early detection of cancer is that

A pathologist friend told me “there’s a good chance you already have the cancer that might eventually kill you.” The danger of early detection of cancer is that we’ll end up treating fat more people than we would otherwise, and cancer treatment is often brutal. I’ll be interested to see what better detection actually does for mortality rates.