The Epidemic of Fake Disease

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Myocardial mug by Hana Ayoob http://www.curiousoctopus.co.uk/

Suggested reading:
The Patient Paradox by Margaret McCartney - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patient-Para...
Overdiagnosed by H Gilbert Welch - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overdiagnose...

References:
Overdiagnosis in cancer - https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article...
How 5 year survival can mislead - https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f548
Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer? - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it - https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h...
Incidentalomas - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
Thyroid cancer - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
The NELSON lung cancer screening trial - https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/...

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