[droopyEyelids]

Your comment is an example of the statistical/scientific misunderstandings that lead to 'overdiagnosis' https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...

Not all cancer is the same.

Every person will have some amount of cancer as they get older. Some of the cancer will not be aggressive or disruptive enough to cause a problem before the person dies of another old-age related infirmary.

Treating cancer is not free. Treatment reduces the quality of life of the person treated. Elderly people are slower to heal, and more at risk for complications. To treat a cancer that would not cause problems in the natural lifespan of its host is an expensive mistake.

Screening technology can expand our ability to detect cancer without giving us the insight to know dangerous cancer from inconsequential cancer. When we go on to treat inconsequential cancer we've actually reduced the years of healthy life of the patient.

[donohoe]

I take your point, but 2 of the people I refer to had serious stage of cancer and would have died otherwise.