When You Have Cancer, But You're Fine: Cancer Overdiagnosis

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Studies suggest that if you made full-body scans part of your regular routine, you’d find a bunch of cancers over the years, but it wouldn't change your odds of having a life-threatening cancer. This is mostly because our definition of cancer is a little too broad. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: academic.oup.com/jnci/article/102/9/605/894608 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322920/pdf/nihms658721.pdf ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2005.04.7985 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16170016 www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/what-is-cancer.html jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/197942 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566586 seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2016/ publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-018-0095-6 ----- Images: www.istockphoto.com/vector/multitude-gm465729608-59659900 www.videoblocks.com/video/computed-medical-tomography-mri-scan-of-the-thoracic-spine-of-a-man-with-osteochondrosis-hmz98vrf0mjoy5n2bt www.videoblocks.com/video/white-ink-spot-shrinking-down-in-dark-space-rvwtiqp8gjdingnd7 www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11304500843/ www.videoblocks.com/video/a-patient-moving-into-mri-scan-machine-hzri8adsmjfr1ecge www.istockphoto.com/vector/pink-human-skin-cell-vector-seamless-pattern-gm1076612692-288319198 www.videoblocks.com/video/magnetic-resonance-image-of-human-body-on-monitor-ct-scan-expertise-in-modern-medical-centre-computed-tomography-x-ray-diagnostics-3d-mri-scan-of-human-rib-cage-btttgc197jmq9qh2j www.videoblocks.com/video/hex-particles-medical-grid-hexagon-pattern-technology-background-loop-sag5gy_qrjz0tggmg www.istockphoto.com/vector/doctors-office-gm496924105-41784778 www.istockphoto.com/vector/medical-diagnosis-for-illness-people-flat-banner-gm1148940036-310447162 www.videoblocks.com/video/magnetic-resonance-image-of-patient-body-on-monitor-high-technology-ct-scan-expertise-computed-tomography-x-ray-image-in-medical-centre-mri-scan-of-human-rib-cage-spbjvu515xjmqabi3a www.videoblocks.com/video/human-body-cancer-cell-sg0lplar7jp2k5ls6 www.videoblocks.com/video/hunting-my-nightmares-horror-cinematic-trailer-bvxpvmhuiq52znrx

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