[Gibbon1]

Also read that death rates from thyroid cancer hasn't changed in 50 years. Despite huge numbers of thyroid screenings and treatment.

An ultrasound of the thyroid often leads to finding a nodule. Which leads to a biopsy. Which comes out indeterminate. Which leads to a thyroidectomy and life long dependence on thyroid hormones.

Another one is ductal carcinoma in situ. Read somewhere there is a 1% chance that will evolve into cancer. And yet you have women having double mastectomies and chemo for it.

[haldujai]

Absolutely no one is getting a bilateral mastectomy or chemotherapy for DCIS.

This is by far the most inaccurate medical claim I've ever seen on HN. Where on earth did you get this from?

The whole point of diagnosing DCIS on screening mammography is that it avoids systemic therapy and mastectomy. It also wouldn't be bilateral.

[vc8f6vVV]

Yes, they do. I have a friend who did just that. Was it justified? I don't know, but it's very real.