When Jenny had a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she believed the major surgery to remove her breast, although traumatic, had saved her life.
She described feeling rage when, at a follow-up appointment three years later, she said to her surgeon: “I would probably be dead by now” if she had not received the surgery, to which he replied: “Probably not.”
It was only then, after she had already undergone invasive and life-changing treatment, that Jenny learned about “overdiagnosis.”
While breast cancer screening programs are essential and save lives, sometimes they also detect lumps that might never go on to cause
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