> If aggressive treatment regularly saved lives the healthiest 35% of the population, one would probably see a noticeable difference in mortality between the ra

> If aggressive treatment regularly saved lives the healthiest 35% of the population, one would probably see a noticeable difference in mortality between the randomized groups. It isn’t different from no treatment according to that statistic, but it does save lives. Unfortunately, it also kills about the same number of men. It also, for thousands, decreases quality of life. Unnecessary operations can have side effects and there are scares on early false positives. Even the visits for checkups decrease quality of life a bit, and you’ve to do millions of those to save a life. The problem is that, once the word ‘cancer’ has fallen, people categorize dying and side effects such as erectile dysfunction as the cancer’s fault and surviving as being thanks to medicine. So, on parties, they’ll say “doctors saved my life” and “cancer killed my brother”