We can't yet reliably distinguish between cancers that need aggressive treatment and those that would never cause harm.
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Some slow-growing cancers are unlikely to ever threaten a patient's life, yet current diagnostics often can't tell them apart from dangerous ones. This leads to both overtreatment and, at times, dangerous undertreatment.
Citation ID: WS00325
Title: We can't yet reliably distinguish between cancers that need aggressive treatment and those that would never cause harm.
URL: https://worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=325