But this really just illustrates a lack of knowledge on our part. If we made thyroid screening a regular thing and invested $10B/year into diagnostics, analysis

But this really just illustrates a lack of knowledge on our part. If we made thyroid screening a regular thing and invested $10B/year into diagnostics, analysis, and study, i guarantee you in 5 years or less we would have the most efficient, effective system for treatment, determining which microcarcinomas are bad, which ones to keep an eye on, etc. There simply isn't a profit motive right now, and there aren't a ought resources, so unprofitable, minor things like thyroid cancers and other, small, mostly non-fatal things fall by the wayside. If we could massively increase the resources and time spent of solving health issues, we'd have a lot better solutions. There only exist a certain amount of cancer researchers, oncologists, and clinical pharmacologists that can profitably exist. Lots of diseases will never be cured because there are too few people affected by them. Until we decouple medical progress from profit, there's a only a certain amount of progress we can make. Unfortunately, it seems like tying profit to medicine is the most efficient system we have, so it may be centuries till we get there