If you look at what practitioners and informed epidemiologists are saying the incidentaloma problem for any type of screening is huge and underestimated with no

If you look at what practitioners and informed epidemiologists are saying the incidentaloma problem for any type of screening is huge and underestimated with no clear solution. It’s not only about finding and invasively testing benign masses, which can cause actual serious health problems (the associated anxiety and stress alone can actually kill, not to mention the cost and painful or damaging biopsies). But many true positive cancerous or malignant conditions can progress so slowly relative to the patient’s overall health that they do not shorten the patient’s life and/or the treatment may be worse than the “disease” that was detected. Hence why so many types of screenings that actually work can do positive harm for certain populations. And once you find something with a screening you can’t unfind it. The patient or at least their doctor now has that knowledge and has to live with it and actively decide what to do about it.